first dunkelweizen

[teebee]

First time posting and new to the forums.
Have been home brewing a little while with just extracts and want to start trying out using some specialty grains. Created this recipe after looking through some others on various sites, want to keep the grain bill as simple as possible to get a grasp on how the grains affect finished product. open to suggestions please let me know what you think.

Dunkelweizen
OG 1.046
Target FG 1.015
Colour 16.5 SRM
Bitterness 13.4 IBU

1.5kg light lme @ knockout
1.5kg wheat lme @60m
25g hallertau (2.9%) @60m
25g hallertau (2.9%) @45m
250g dark crystal malt
100g chocolate malt
Safbrew wheat yeast

Doing this on stove top so can only boil 5 litre volume thus the high amount of hops. Planning to steep grain in 1 litre of water for half an hour @ 70C, sparging with another litre and topping up. Begin boil and add wheat lme with hallertau. Will add light lme at knockout.

 

[Droopy Brew]

Looks fine but the 1.5kg of LME at the start of the boil will be too much. With a 5L boil you would require roughly 0.5kg of LME to get the magical 1.040 gravity that optimises hop utilisation. Use Ian's spreadsheet to plug in your recipe and it will show you exactly how much you should use.

 

[rude]

I have one of these fermenting at the moment with 3068 wyeast
50% wye wheat
50% wye munich 11
Used Hallertau hops as well
Also fermenting a Hefe with it & need a blow off tube for that,the Dunkel is just handling it.
Trying ferment temp at 20c
Good luck with youres

 

[teebee]

Using beersmith, typed in half a kilo of lme at beginning and will only need to use 25g of the hallertau now thanks. So you would add the rest of wheat and the light lme at knockout to pasteurise?