📝 Dunkelweizen with lavender.
Label: LD
- 450 g wheat malt
- 400 g Munich malt II
- 100 g pale chocolate malt
- 6 g Saaz
- Fermentis SafAle WB‑06
- 3 g of lavender
- Mash 3 L at 73 °C for 1 hour (it should stay at 67 °C)
- Drain into mash tun
- Add 3 L at 76 °C for 15 minutes into the mash
- Drain into mash tun
- Boil for 1 hour
- At 0 minutes, add 6 g Saaz
- At 55 minutes, add the lavender
- Cool down to 20 °C
- Syphon into carboy
- Add yeast and gently mix
- Brewing: 2022-02-07 (1035 OG)
- Bottling: 2022-03-03 (1010 FG, 3.27%)
- Tasting: 2022-03-24
Even though half of the lavender Hefeweizen, 3 g was still probably way too much.
And according to this thread it would have been better to add it in secondary instead of during boil (and in much smaller quantity still).
We'll see what it turns out like.
Also like the two previous 1 gallon recipes using 3 L mash and 3 L sparge, I didn't fully fill the gallon jar fermenter. Should probably do 4 L mash then 4 or 5 L sparge next time. It looks like recipes for 1 gallon commonly use 9 L of water total.
Pretty damn good. Still very lavender-y but the fact it's a dark beer makes it less overpowering as expected and it's actually pleasant and enjoyable.
If I was to redo it I would put half the lavender. Maybe 1 g per gallon or something like this.