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Recipe: Schwarzwald Schwarzbier

With this fresh recipe from his Make Your Best series, Josh Weikert goes for relatively restrained roast in this dark lager—and you can tinker with it from there.

Josh Weikert Mar 29, 2021 - 3 min read

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This is always a tough needle to thread, in terms of how much roast is too much or not enough. The small pale-chocolate malt addition should add a nice background roast character, and you can tinker from there to get it where you’d like it.

For more on brewing schwarzbier, see how to Make Your Best.

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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 72%
OG: 1.049
FG: 1.012
IBUs: 30
ABV: 5%

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