What is your favorite Hefeweizen Yeast?

Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:23 am

What's your favorite Hefeweizen yeast and why? I am looking to make a great hefeweizen, something light like Paulaner's.

Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:33 am

My last Hefe and Dunkelweizen I used 3068. The only other hefe that I have experience with is the WLP300. Although, my comparison really isn't apples to apples. I used a slightly different Wheat/Pilsner ratio for both, and I fermented the 3068 beers @ 62 degrees and the WLP300 @ 68 degrees.

I want to try to culture the yeast from a bottle of Paulaner, and do a side by side comparison that way. I'm curious if anyone has tried to do somehting like this.

Also, you left out the "I wear no pants and whatever falls into the fermentor wins" option

Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:51 am

My guess it that Paulaners is probably pasteurized.

Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:21 pm

WLP 380. ferment at 62 and it will leave a nice spiciness, with more clove than banana. i love it, it's all i use my hefes.

Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:53 pm

Are you fucking kidding me... Why did you even bother with this post... are you trying to get my blood pressure up? 3068 IS THE ONLY HEFE YEAST.
Perhaps you have seen that statement in a thread or 2.
3068 IS THE ONLY HEFE YEAST... if you try anything else I will disown you.
BUB

Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:58 pm

bub wrote:I will disown you.

And that's a problem how?

Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:25 pm

bub wrote:Are you fucking kidding me... Why did you even bother with this post... are you trying to get my blood pressure up? 3068 IS THE ONLY HEFE YEAST.
Perhaps you have seen that statement in a thread or 2.
3068 IS THE ONLY HEFE YEAST... if you try anything else I will disown you.
BUB

Because I don't want fucking bananas in my Dunkelweizen!

Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:00 pm

Is this a trick question? You only have one hefeweissen yeast on that list, Wyeast 3068. Bub has it right....for a change.

Anything else will just be a cheap imitation of the real thing.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company