Holy Wheat Yeast Batman!

[DeadYetiBrew]

Check this out. We were getting tired of extract batches so we decided to bump up to Partial Mashes... Decided on a weizenbock... The mash failed because we were ill equipped... Went ahead with the failed mash getting an OG of 1.055 (from the 6 lbs of wheat DME) instead of the estimated 1.080... Beer tasted nasty going into prime, going into 2ndary and into the bottles... Primed it and here i sit a week later testing this sucker, I will NEVER dump a batch EVER just because of this beer... As nasty as it tasted it tastes great now... Slight wheat flavor, but what catches my attention is the HUUUUUGE Banana flavor and smell, i mean it tastes like i literally created a banana beer, and it's not the horrendously bad... I'm actually looking forward to this beer aging now... I don't taste the malts too much but hopefully they'll mellow in and make it even better... I've already got another AG wheat beer recipe cooking in my head for this yeast...


Moral of this story, NEVER dump a beer no matter how bad it is.......

 

[cpbergie]

So which yeast was this?

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen, meant to add that in the original post...

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

I wanna try that yeast. I've been using WLP300 which I thought had an awesome banana tone. I tasted a local hefeweizen from a brewpub here in Germany and I was blown away by the banana. I really want to achieve something like that. Guess I'll try the 3068 next and I'm also gonna try and harvest some yeast from this local brewpub. They sell their beer in growlers.

 

[CollinsBrew]

Does Wyeast 3333 give those great banana and clove flavors that everyone is talking about? I'm doing a Hefe today and that's the yeast I'm using.

Thanks!

 

[bradsul]

3068 is awesome, I use it for all my hefeweizens. The banana and clove are nice and strong and make for a really refreshing beer. I believe WLP300 is the same strain as 3068 but I'm not positive. I am doing a hefe this weekend using WLP300 instead of 3068 just to see if it is similar.

3333 seems to have quite a bit different flavour profile but if you go towards the higher end of the fermentation temperature range you'll probably get lots of interesting flavours. I have no direct experience with this yeast so take that with a grain of salt, just read it off the wyeast site.

 

[Cheesefood]

My wife was fixing some sliced banana and Cheerios for our son, and it smelled EXACTLY like a hefe.

 

[Professor Frink]

I used Wyeast 3068 today in my heffe AG. I missed my OG pretty bad (1.030), I smacked the pack yesterday, but since it was raining all day, I didn't do the brew till this morning. After 3 hours, it was fermenting away like crazy! Anyone get a real short lag time with this yeast?