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.
Dunkel Recipe 1 MALT/GRAIN BILL 2 HOPS SCHEDULE 3 DIRECTIONS. Mash at 152°F (67°C) for 60 minutes. Boil for 75 minutes. Chill to 48°F (9°C) and pitch the yeast. ... 4 YEAST 5 EXTRACT VARIATION. Steep the Melanoidin and Carafa Special III malts at 160°F (71°C) for 30 minutes. ...
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.
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.