New Brewer with Hefeweizen Question

[benbonewilly]

I'm pretty new to brewing. I have made a few batches with a Mr. Beer kit and I currently have a batch of Copper's Australian Lager in bottles in my basement. My favorite beers of all time are Bavarian Hefeweizens. Living in Germany for three years will do that to ya! I'd love to brew one. I have a Cooper's wheat beer kit. What should I do to make this taste more like a real German Hefe? I hear that using liquid yeast will help. What should I use and where could I get such supplies from? Any and all input would be appreciated! Thanks y'all.

 

[emerex]

I used wyeast 3068 for my franziskaner clone. Excellent banana and clove flavor. Had a crisp clean finish. There is another heff strain from wyeast, but I don't know anything about it.

 

[ghank15]

i just made one using WLP300. Fantastic. tasted almost as good as a hacker pschorr. well maybe not but it was really good.

with hefeweizen and weiss beers, the flavor stems from the yeast. i highly recommend this yeast strain.

also, if you steep a pound of flaked wheat or even malted wheat at 160ish for an hour, the head retention will be helped immensely.

enjoy

 

[emerex]

SORRY!!

Scratch that, not wyeast 3068, I used #WPL300, i thoguht that sounded off when I typed it.

 

[cclloyd]

Wyeast 3638 Bavarian Wheat is real nice too. Good mix of banana clove and bubble gum esters.

 

[pauljmccain]

weihenstephan!

http://www.wyeastlab.com/com_b_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=135

 

[benbonewilly]

Thank y'all. I'm going to go with WPL300. I really prefer Bavarian style beers. I had Ayinger down in Munich on tap..........Amazing! That was the BEST beer I've ever had. I had some pretty amazing stuff at the Hofbrauhaus as well.

 

[theisdahl]

I'm pretty new to brewing. I have made a few batches with a Mr. Beer kit and I currently have a batch of Copper's Australian Lager in bottles in my basement. My favorite beers of all time are Bavarian Hefeweizens. Living in Germany for three years will do that to ya! I'd love to brew one. I have a Cooper's wheat beer kit. What should I do to make this taste more like a real German Hefe? I hear that using liquid yeast will help. What should I use and where could I get such supplies from? Any and all input would be appreciated! Thanks y'all.

I would really like to know how this turns out? This will also be my second brew.
Let me know what your steps are when you are done.

Thanks.