Wheat

Dunkles Weissbier

BJCP 10B

A weissbier with Munich and dark wheat malt behind it: the same yeast character, now sitting on bread crust and light caramel instead of pale wheat.

Vital statistics

Each bar is drawn against the full range of all 98 styles

Original gravity

1.044 - 1.056

Final gravity

1.010 - 1.014

Bitterness

10 IBU - 18 IBU

Colour

14 SRM - 23 SRM

Alcohol

4.3% - 5.6%

Colour also 28-45 EBC

What goes wrong

Letting the malt bury the yeast. It is still a wheat beer, and the banana and clove have to survive the darker grist.

Commercial examples

Ayinger Ur-WeisseFranziskaner Hefe-Weisse DunkelHirsch Dunkel WeisseTucher Dunkles Hefe WeizenWeihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel

Reference examples of the style, as listed in the BJCP 2021 Style Guidelines. Availability varies by market and year.

Vital statistics as published in the BJCP 2021 Style Guidelines. Not yet checked against the published guidelines: treat these ranges as a planning aid and read the source at bjcp.org before entering a competition.

The rest of the wheat family

American Wheat Beer

4-5.5% · 15-30 IBU

10A

Weissbier

4.3-5.6% · 8-15 IBU

10C

Weizenbock

6.5-9% · 15-30 IBU

24A

Witbier

4.5-5.5% · 8-20 IBU

Plan a batch to these numbers.

Bitterness Colour Alcohol