Banana Dunkelweissen?

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jeremydgreat

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Do you think bananas would work well with a Dunkelweissen? I was thinking about using this recipe as a base (extract):

Ingredients:
9# Wheat LME
6oz Munich malt (steeping)
6oz Special B (steeping)
6oz Crystal40 (steeping)
2oz CarafaII (steeping)
1oz Hallertau (4%) @60min
WLP300 Hefeweizen Ale yeast

Process:
  • Ferment base recipe in primary for a week or so.
  • Take 5# ripe bananas, dice, spritz with StarSan, blend with spiced rum, let it sit for a couple hours, and then dump into secondary. Let it sit for about 20 days in secondary.
  • Add one rum-infused vanilla bean at some point.
After reading this thread, I just thought the idea of a super-banana-y Dunkel sounded great.

Any red flags raised here, or should I just give it a whirl and pray for the best?
 
WLP300 should give you plenty of banana as is, just ramp up the temp into the 70s
 
80 or so would be great for that fresh banana taste.

Sounds gross to me, but I salute your spirit of experimantation.
 
I just bottle my first wheat beer that was a partial mash combo of briess bavarian wheat lme and briess white wheat malt. The aroma was heavy on the banana side, perhaps the safale 04 yeast or tettnang hops or it being a green beer... I liked the smell either way.
 
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