I want to do my second AG hefeweizen (have done many extract ones) and would like to get it a bit more complex in flavors. 98% of the recipes I see out there (in magazines and online) all just say pale wheat and pilsner malt or pale malt. Even many of the clone recipes for completely different tasting beers often have nearly identical ingredients. I know I know, a lot of it comes from the process, the yeast, decoctions, etc but I was just wondering what other grains can be used.
I'm kinda thinking of the nice classic banana/clove tasting wheat (not dunkel) but I would like an additional flavor... perhaps let's say a toasty bread kind of flavor added to it but it doesn't have to be that exactly. I've been looking at grains and so far I'm thinking any one of these grains could be possibly be used but some of course would need to be used in very small quantities:
Belgian Biscuit
Belgian Caravienne
Briess Victory
Maris Otter
German Munich
German Vienna
Weyemann Dark wheat
Weyermann Melanoidin
You get the point. Again, not looking to do a dunkel and using Beersmith I see even some of these darker grains can be used in smaller amounts and still keep to the style. Just looking for an extra dimension outside of the standard pale wheat/pilsner malt. Any suggestions?
Rev.
I'm kinda thinking of the nice classic banana/clove tasting wheat (not dunkel) but I would like an additional flavor... perhaps let's say a toasty bread kind of flavor added to it but it doesn't have to be that exactly. I've been looking at grains and so far I'm thinking any one of these grains could be possibly be used but some of course would need to be used in very small quantities:
Belgian Biscuit
Belgian Caravienne
Briess Victory
Maris Otter
German Munich
German Vienna
Weyemann Dark wheat
Weyermann Melanoidin
You get the point. Again, not looking to do a dunkel and using Beersmith I see even some of these darker grains can be used in smaller amounts and still keep to the style. Just looking for an extra dimension outside of the standard pale wheat/pilsner malt. Any suggestions?
Rev.