Dark Wheat Malt Diastatic Power

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  1. pweis909

    pweis909 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,250) Aug 13, 2005 Wisconsin
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    The German Dark Wheat profile that I have in Beersmith says 10 Lintner. That's got to be wrong, methinks. So I checked Northern Brewer and was thrown a curveball: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/weyermann-dark-wheat-malt.html?gclid=CMSirrTNsrsCFcY7Mgodt1kA4w

    What is the WK unit they report?

    Anyone have DP stats in Lintner for this malt? NB calls it a base malt, so the 10 Lintner must be way off. Weyermann doesn't list diastatic power at the page I visited: http://www.weyermann.de/eng/produkte.asp?idkat=17&umenue=yes&idmenue=37&sprache=2
     
  2. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Peter, below is the conversion equation to obtain Lintner from WK:

    °Lintner = (°WK + 16)/3.5

    So, if you consider the value of 250 °WK then you get 76 °L.

    Cheers!
     
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  3. MrOH

    MrOH Grand Pooh-Bah (3,995) Jul 5, 2010 Virginia
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    I once made a dunkelweizen from ~60% dark wheat and ~40% munich II with a little chocolate wheat for color. IIRC, took like two hours to convert, but the malt profile was great. Flavor was kinda like a wheat thin that got baked a little too long. Nice fluffy body, as well.
     
  4. pweis909

    pweis909 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,250) Aug 13, 2005 Wisconsin
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    Thanks!

    I was thinking something similar, malt-wise (but maybe as a lager?) and wanted to evaluate whether there was enough DP to make sure the munich converted. I usually mash for 60-75 minutes, unless I have adjunct grain, then I go longer. Your input is helpful if I ever do something with this grain.
     
  5. NiceFly

    NiceFly Initiate (0) Dec 22, 2011 Tajikistan

    I do not know the degL but like MrOH I have made dunkelweizen and weizenbock with 40% dark munich 60%dark wheat with not problems.

    It really pisses me off Weyermann does not list actual diastatic power values.
     
  6. VikeMan

    VikeMan Grand Pooh-Bah (3,067) Jul 12, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    That, plus they won't sell those cool red overalls.
     
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