Brew day 2 – my wife and son were off in Hereford for the weekend, so I squeezed in another brew day – this time making a much darker brew. This one was a Weissbier Dunkel – http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/weissbier-dunkel
This was also my first solo brew using a recipe I’d adapted for the BIABacus. I got a gravity of 1048 whereas I was aiming for 1.051, so not bad. I didn’t bother with dicoctions or step mashes.
Much simpler hop recipe (just one addition at 60 minutes) and the wort tasted lovely. I pitched a WLP-300 yeast. Yeast is the most important part of German Wheatbeers – you need a special kind to get the correct banana and clove tastes!
