Heff yeast with a stout?

[BrookdaleBrew]

Stone did an imperial porter last year with the Wyeast 3522 Ardennes strain for their 09.09.09 Vertical Epic. I thought it was awesome. I was thinking of doing an imperial stout with this yeast. It gave tons of awesome banana flavor and it worked well with the darker malts.

 

[Commander_Nate]

That would be an overly roasty Dunkel Weisse. Could not be called a stout with hefe yeast. Sounds good though.

I figured this would be kind of a style-bender. I went with stout because of the base recipe idea.

That is good to hear it was a fun experiement. My beer has aged about two months and the bannana flavor is way down. The flavor is very good and drinkable as most of it is gone now. I agree with the roasty grain bill being a little too much. I think I may try a Sam Adams clone with the Heffe yeast next time.

Sounds tasty!

Stone did an imperial porter last year with the Wyeast 3522 Ardennes strain for their 09.09.09 Vertical Epic. I thought it was awesome. I was thinking of doing an imperial stout with this yeast. It gave tons of awesome banana flavor and it worked well with the darker malts.

Hmm...I'll keep that in mind for the next time I try this. The description of it on the Wyeast website is pretty interesting. Have you used that strain yourself?

 

[BrookdaleBrew]

Hmm...I'll keep that in mind for the next time I try this. The description of it on the Wyeast website is pretty interesting. Have you used that strain yourself?

I have not used it myself, but the plan is to do a big chocolate stout and ferment with that strain. I want a beer that tastes like chocolate covered bananas.