Cowher said:I bought a brewers best Hefe extract kit and it sucked. Well the beer was good but it wasn't any thing like a hefe weizen. Oh well I guess I'll just have to try one from another company.
midfielder5 said:i havent heard of that beer, but
if you want an authentic german hefe, i suggest you do EdWort's Bavarian Hefe, listed on here.
Generally, an extract hefe is just dry wheat extract, 20 Ibus of bittering noble hops, and an authentic liquid german hefe yeast (WL 300, or WY 3068-- double check those numbers).
I wonder what dry yeast they gave you?Cowher said:I bought a brewers best Hefe extract kit and it sucked. Well the beer was good but it wasn't any thing like a hefe weizen. Oh well I guess I'll just have to try one from another company.
midfielder5 said:I wonder what dry yeast they gave you?
Do you recall?
Anyways, I looked at the kit ingredients & besides it being a little low in IBUs (for my tastes)- and dry yeast- it seemed ok.
* dry yeast is fine but not for certain beer styles ( hefes/ belgians).
I have had a hefe made with the dry yeast and I would say its pretty good. I prefer the white labs myself but you can make a hefe without liquid.
VillageBrew said:Very true. I mis-typed earlier. I meant to say that you cannot have a good hefeweizen without a good hefeweizen yeast. Dry or liquid does not matter. :rockin:
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