This Roggen beer is a recipe I adapted from the Home Brew Recipe Bible book. I adjusted to account for the ingredients available to me while keeping it overall the same. The style is similar to a dunkelweizen but replaces the wheat malt with rye. This is the first time I have tried brewing a high rye content beer and the wort was different than I have ever experienced. The trub never fully settled out while chilling so I ended up with more in the fermenter than I would have liked and the wort was slimy. It was certainly an interesting beer style to brew and will be entered into my homebrew club competition for June of 2026.

Recipe Details

Batch Size Boil Time IBU SRM Est. OG Est. FG ABV
5.5 gal 60 min 14.4 IBUs 17.4041312 1.049 1.011 5.1 %

Style Details

Name Cat. OG Range FG Range IBU SRM Carb ABV
Roggenbier 27 1.046 - 1.056 1.01 - 1.014 10 - 20 14 - 19 2.5 - 3.1 4.5 - 6 %

Fermentables

Name Amount %
Rye Malt 7 lbs 58.16
Munich Malt 2.6 lbs 21.6
Vienna Malt (Weyermann) 1.435 lbs 11.92
Caramunich Malt 12 oz 6.23
Carafa III 4 oz 2.08

Hops

Name Amount Time Use Form Alpha %
Tettnang 1.5 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 4.5

Miscs

Name Amount Time Use Type
Chalk 17.76 g 60 min Mash Water Agent
Epsom Salt (MgSO4) 3.80 g 60 min Mash Water Agent
Magnesium Chloride 1.52 g 60 min Mash Water Agent
Salt 0.39 g 60 min Mash Water Agent
Baking Soda 0.29 g 60 min Mash Water Agent

Yeast

Name Lab Attenuation Temperature
Safbrew Wheat (WB-06) DCL/Fermentis 68% 59°F - 75°F

Mash

Step Temperature Time
Acid Rest 95°F 5 min
Protein Rest 125.6°F 15 min
Saccharification 1 145.4°F 45 min
Saccharification 2 161.6°F 30 min
Mash Out 172.4°F 10 min
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