Brewer dad
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Attempting to brew two recipes from Mr. Papazian's Complete Joy of Home Brewing: "Danger knows no favorites dunkel" and "purposely saison". Problem is my idiot self wasn't paying attention and thought the dunkel was a dunkelweizen, it's actually a dunkel lager. Consequently I ordered the lager ingredients but with an ale yeast(wyeast 3638 Bavarian wheat). All ingredients for both recipes are now on hand or en route. Not necessarily against a darker lager, but really was interested in the dunkelweizen. Here's the LME/DME for each:
Dunkel:
-#3 dark DME
-#3.3 Amber LME
Saison:
-#3 light LME
-#3 Bavarian Wheat LME
Initially I was thinking I could exchange some extract between recipes to make it a dunkelweizen and then maybe a biere de garde or just a darker saison. However to get 50/50 wheat I'll need all of it leaving none for the saison.
For the dunkel I also have crystal and debittered black malt, as well as tettnanger and mt hood hops. I do have S04 slurry on hand, so could do a brown ale instead. Of course could also just pitch the Bavarian yeast and see what happens.
Any suggestions on potential routes to take? Obviously I could just wait to get proper ingredients but don't have a shop in the area. Trying to use what I have. I'd like to brew a saison and dunkelweizen if possible, and don't mind tweaking things to get me there.
Dunkel:
-#3 dark DME
-#3.3 Amber LME
Saison:
-#3 light LME
-#3 Bavarian Wheat LME
Initially I was thinking I could exchange some extract between recipes to make it a dunkelweizen and then maybe a biere de garde or just a darker saison. However to get 50/50 wheat I'll need all of it leaving none for the saison.
For the dunkel I also have crystal and debittered black malt, as well as tettnanger and mt hood hops. I do have S04 slurry on hand, so could do a brown ale instead. Of course could also just pitch the Bavarian yeast and see what happens.
Any suggestions on potential routes to take? Obviously I could just wait to get proper ingredients but don't have a shop in the area. Trying to use what I have. I'd like to brew a saison and dunkelweizen if possible, and don't mind tweaking things to get me there.