NYeric
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This may seem obvious to some, But is a heffewiesen a basic wheat beer using specialty yeast?
NYeric said:Cool....I am starting now, and am using WLP 300..sound good?
(all ready for tomorrow bird)
grrtt78 said:the hops sound good and wlp300 is a great hefe yeast but it depends on the flavor u want. WLP300 gives more banana notes where WLP380 gives more cloves. If you want a more american hefe use WLP 320 which keeps banana and clove flavors and aromas down.
the_bird said:I hope so - that's the one I've got in the fridge for Sunday!
Gotta make my starter in the morning...
homebrewer_99 said:IMO, a Hefe Weizen (by speaking German you automatically mean a German Wheat Beer with yeast) REQUIRES the use the appropriate German Weizen yeast, is cloudy, has banana overtones and served in the proper glass.
Any other beer with wheat malt and no German yeast is just a wheat beer and NOT a Weizen, this includes variations of, and broken German/Americanese mutations and combinations of words such as an "American Weizen".
To me this animal doesn't exist. Unfortunately, it does announce to the world the ignorance of the brewer of the style and origin.
But, that's just me.
The Pol said:Use a blow off, or else....
There probably are, but America seems to ignore all International laws in favor of profit...BoxerDog said:I would 100% agree, to me there is no such thing as "American Weizen" or "American Hefe". Back a few months ago I went to visit my parents and couldnt find any Hefe, so I bought a 6 pack of Sam Adams Hefe Weizen, I dont know what that stuff is, but it certainly doesnt resemble any sort of German Hefe Weizen. There should be laws against things like this.
NYeric said:It's all in the bottles.....
Wow what a great flavor! I came up a bottle short, I couldn't stop drinking it while I was bottling it. Even flat it tasted good. I'll be using WLP300 again. I would use it on the next batch, but I want to try the 320 or the 380.
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