permo

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I successfully harvested yeast from a 6 pack of SN Kellerweis. This yeast is currently chewing away on a 10 gallon batch of 1.045 OG Dunkelweizen.

I am aware of the weizen styles and this is my primary function for this yeast, but I am wondering if anybody experimented with this yeast and found the results pleasing? Like using it for a porter or an amber or something....

Personally I thought the yeast might work well in a tripel....

beeber

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I am not sure the bottling yeast in that product would be the same as the primary fermentation yeast.

Catawampus

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Hi there,

First post, but hang around a lot. I bottle-cultured some Kellerweiss yeast and it worked really well in a Bavarian Dampfbier (recipe in a recent BYO)--an all barley ale with a weizen yeast (means "steam beer" in German I think).

There are other threads on here for culturing this yeast with some good results. I think it is the primary strain.

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permo

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it is the primary strain, the chico strain is not introduced to kellerweis at any point, nor is it pastuerized.


"Dampfbier"? you have peaked my interest.

Catawampus

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permo,

I've attached a little blurb about the, somewhat obscure style, from the byo website.

http://www.byo.com/component/resource/article/Indices/11-Beer%20Styles/534-dampfbier-style-profile

My recipe, which I think I pulled from a write-up in byo was:

O.G. 1.048
F.G. 1.008
SRM 5.37
IBU 14.3

70% German Pils
30% Munich
French Strisselspalt (I really like this hop, I'm weird.)

Single infusion mash at 152 F for 60 min

Bottle conditioned.

My tasting notes tell me it was a little nutty. Malt nose. Orange to light brown straw color. A little bit of hefe yeastiness on the finish.

Unlike the usual for most hefes, this dampfbier seemed to get better with age. Not a lot of age mind you, but ~6 or 7 weeks in the bottle.

I really enjoyed it. The head was a little lacking, so you might want to adjust slightly for that if using this recipe and procedures. If you make it let me know how yours turns out.

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permo

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Do you think the krausening is necassary to obtain the proper flavor profile?

Catawampus

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If I'm honest, I'm not certain. I have used this yeast several times. I have never krausened, and sometimes the profile is spot on with Kellerweiss and sometimes it is slightly (and I do mean very slightly) different.

The Dampfbier, to me, seemed spot on with the yeast flavor profile. I would suspect using it repeatedly would allow it to adapt to conditions absent krausening, but of course, perhaps it would lose the Kellerweiss profile.

A long-winded way of saying I don't know!!

Perhaps you should try it and we'll both know

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EricCSU

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Roggenbier uses Hefe yeast too.

Eric

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Catawampus

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Bump.

Permo,

Did you try the Dampfbier? Use krausening?

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OCBrewin

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I had some pretty good results with this yeast. I really dig this SN product.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/kellerweis-harvest-killer-214606/

Cheers!