Wunder Grain - 10 lb

A great deal for the price. Not much if any dark grains in this mix. Should make an excellent for an excellent IPA or APA!

I bought 4 of these and for the price it is great, plus free shipping at $55. I recracked the grains to maintain consistency for the mash. I typically use 8 pounds to a 5.5 gallon batch so I can stretch my 40 pound purchase to 5 batches. 2 of my bags had a small amount of dark grains, probably less than 1% so I didn't have any issue considering my recipe choices. My first brew was a simple porter that has turned out very nice.

I have been a home brewer for about only 1 year and most cases I get the recipe kits. I ordered this product to start braking out of my shell and try to be more creative. As I mashed I winged the hops additions and as it was boiling I tasted and added more hops if it was needed. I ordered 4 and I ended up with 4 amazing one in a life time 5 gallons of beer. A friend of mine who’s been home brewing for over 6 years asked me for the grain bill to replicate one of the beers but I had to tell him that I didn’t know since it was this product. You can’t beat this price for what you get as an end product. Will definitely order again!

I can confirm that Wunder grain purchased 11/30/19 no longer contains any smoked malt (or a level so low I can't taste it). Hopefully AHB will consider never adding mistakenly milled smoked malts to the Wunder mix again. I used 10lbs of Wunder grains, 25 IBU's of Cascade and Columbus @60/10/0 evenly split between additions and an English ale strain. The beer turned out to be a very nice dark amber with ruby highlights. Probably in the 16-18 SRM range right now, if I had to guess. It's a dead ringer for the color of cola in the glass. At 25 IBU's the malt stands up quit nice and it's got a nice complexity to it. I was concerned about it being over the top crystal, but it wasn't at all. Overall I'm very please with this purchase and if you just need some cheap grains to make a good beer don't over look this. My next batch will use 10lbs of this grain and 10lbs of pilsner malt for a 10g amber lager batch.

My homebrew club used this to make a 10 gallon batch of a surprise beer. Everybody brought an ounce of hops, we threw them into a container and mixed them all up. Added small amounts every 2 minutes and then dry hopped with the rest and got an unknown yeast (turned out to be HotHead from a local brewery). It turned out GREAT! For a total shot in the dark it was fun.

Generally I like surprises but on the 2nd order of the Wunder Grain they must have added a smoked malt. I absolutely hate smokey flavors dominating my beer. I think people should be warned that the base malt may be smoked. 1st order I was pleased with and helped make a great Belgian Ale but this time I feel I have 10 gallons of Belgian Smoked beer that I can't enjoy.

For all of you who clone recipes, step away from the keyboard. For those of you who are say This is pretty cheap and at times they give free shipping this is pretty good stuff. I got a few bags to make a Common Ale for my barbecue team at MIM. 5# of this mix with 15 # of 2 row is my malt bill. I expected more color out of this product but I accept what I steep. On price it seems worth a purchase.