You Can Do It! Dunkel Recipe Here’s a simple and tasty recipe when you’re ready to try your hand at lagers. Once you’ve decided how you’re going to maintain the ideal fermentation temperature ( see “Homebrewing Lagers: Chilling Out” ), you can avail yourself of one of the most delightful beer styles known to man.
When brewing a Munich Dunkel Lager recipe, fermentation temperature control will be imperative. The German lager yeast used in this beer prefers temperatures of about 50˚F or below.
Munich Dunkels use little (if any) heavily roasted malt. That means no black malt and no roasted barley. Most of the color and flavor in this beer comes from mid-range malt, particularly Munich malt.
A Munich Dunkel is a dark lager (dunkel= dark in German). But just because it’s a dark beer doesn’t mean that it’s heavy, bitter, and roasty. Munich Dunkels use little (if any) heavily roasted malt. That means no black malt and no roasted barley. Most of the color and flavor in this beer comes from mid-range malt, particularly Munich malt.