Batch #6 (Brewed Tuesday, February 17, 2009)

Goal:
Chocolate Dunkelweizen (a regular one with chocolate and more body and a little bit roasty)

Ingredients:
2 ½ lb. Munich Barley Malt
2 ½ lb. German Wheat Mal
½ lb. Chocolate Barley Malt
¼ lb. Chocolate Wheat Malt
3 lb. bag Wheat DME
1 oz. Tettnang Hops (for bittering)
1 oz. Hallertau Hops (½ oz. for flavor, ½ oz. for aroma)
10 or 11 oz. harvested Weihenstephaner yeast slurry (from batch #5)

Notes:
Everything went without a hitch. Boil times were 60 minutes for 1 oz. Tettnang, 15 minutes for ½ oz. Hallertau and 5 minutes for ½ oz. Hallertau. I put the wort into my 6 gallon carboy for primary, and used a blow off tube instead of an airlock. As of Wednesday morning, there was a large amount of CO2 blowing through the tube. Not a large amount of kräuzen, but some.

Racked to secondary carboy after 7 days.
Bottled after 7 more days.
Bottles were carbonated after 4 days.

This beer is a hit! While I think it's OK, but not great, EVERYBODY who has tried it has raved! I'm not quite sure what the attraction is, but everyone else seems to love it.

Original Gravity: 1.044 @ 72 degrees (corrected value is 1.04537)
Final Gravity: 1.011 @ 72 degrees (corrected value is 1.0123)
Calculated Alcohol: 4.32% ABV

Lesson learned: Try new things. Even if you don't like them, someone else might. My wife loved this batch!