Today we revisit an old favorite, the Blackberry Dunkelweizen. A dunkelweizen is a dark wheat beer; weizen, which indicates the wheat beer is the same as the weizen in hefeweizen and dunkel, a prefix that literally means dark. Our first batch of this beer was done with blackberry extract. The result was a very tasty, very popular (among our followers, a.k.a., us and our friends) brew; however, it did have a distinctive, vacant blackberry extract flavor. We vowed to re-brew with actual berries. Today, we have prepared 26.3 ounces (over a pound and a half) of blackberry juice, pressed from locally sourced berries. That's just the juice, we removed the pulp for fear of making our beer too bitter.
Music for today's brewing is the Tabasco Donkeys (http://www.larrymclaughlin.net/tobasco-donkeys) original album, Sawin' on the Strings.
Original gravity: 1.062. Bon voyage, Blackberry Dunkel!
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