Wyeast 3068 Weihenstepan for Watermelon Wheat?

[tweezer159]

Howdy Y'all,

New homebrewer here. My girlfriend and I are planning on brewing a watermelon wheat, https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f70/watermelon-wheat-79449/ ,as our next batch (it will be our 5th brew - sorry if the link doesn't work - i don't post them often). We have only used dry yeasts in our previous efforts. We ordered the Wyeast 3068 because at some point in the thread, someone stated that they had tried a few yeasts with this recipe, and that 3068 was there favorite.

I just wanted to get some more opinions before i get started on my first starter. Do you think that the yeast (clove and banana flavors) will overpower the watermelon, accent it well, or not really be that influential? thanks for any information that you can give me!

5.50 lb Wheat LME (4 SRM) Extract 64.7%
0.50 lb Aromatic Malt , Belgium (25 SRM) Grain 2.9 %
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 5.9 %
1.00 lb Honey 11.8%
0.50 oz Perle [8.25 %] (60 min) Hops 19 IBU
0.25 oz Perle [8.25 %] (15 min) Hops 2.5 IBU
0.25 oz Perle [8.25 %] ( 5 min) Hops 1.6 IBU
1 Pkgs Wyeast 3068 Weihenstepan (starter)

2.5 + cups of watermelon juice
bottle condition with watermelon jolly ranchers

Thanks,
JDY

 

[tweezer159]

We decided to keep it simple and use us-05. I'll let y'all know how it goes.

JDY

 

[rjsnau]

I think that was a good idea. In my opinion the banana/clove/bubblegum is pretty strong from that yeast strain and that doesn't sound like a very good combination with the watermelon to me anyways.

 

[bethebrew]

I think that was a good idea. In my opinion the banana/clove/bubblegum is pretty strong from that yeast strain and that doesn't sound like a very good combination with the watermelon to me anyways.

I fermented at 62 with it on a to style wheat beer and got more clove than banana by far and really no bubblegum. But for watermelon now you are in uncharted territory.