Evan!
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I love me some hefe yeast, but I don't love having to pay so much for liquid yeast all the time---or having to wait for it to ship. So I thought I'd try Safale's WB-06. Pitched it into a Weizenbock, fermented it in the mid-to-upper 60's, and it finished high (maybe 1.023).
When I racked to secondary, it started bubbling again...slowly. If you looked closely at the carboy, you could see tiny bubbles rising from the bottom constantly. This went on for weeks, until my kegerator was assembled. I carbed it up and it tasted okay...but kind of weird. Not like a hefe. It had this odd off-taste, like a savory/fruit thing (maybe kind of like mixing soy sauce and peaches?) I thought it was just a recently kegged beer needing age, but it's been in for over 2 weeks now, and I'm not impressed. O'Flainagan warned me, but I had to try it on my own.
I can't say I'm 100% certain it's the yeast, but I'm willing to say 97% certain. I'll not be using it again. The beer is drinkable, but not good...and I must say, even though I've gone through most of the keg, I've contemplated dumping it a couple times just to free up a keg.
So, there you go. WB-06=
When I racked to secondary, it started bubbling again...slowly. If you looked closely at the carboy, you could see tiny bubbles rising from the bottom constantly. This went on for weeks, until my kegerator was assembled. I carbed it up and it tasted okay...but kind of weird. Not like a hefe. It had this odd off-taste, like a savory/fruit thing (maybe kind of like mixing soy sauce and peaches?) I thought it was just a recently kegged beer needing age, but it's been in for over 2 weeks now, and I'm not impressed. O'Flainagan warned me, but I had to try it on my own.
I can't say I'm 100% certain it's the yeast, but I'm willing to say 97% certain. I'll not be using it again. The beer is drinkable, but not good...and I must say, even though I've gone through most of the keg, I've contemplated dumping it a couple times just to free up a keg.
So, there you go. WB-06=