Hefeweizen with British Wheat Malt?

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Hefeweizen with British Wheat Malt?

Post by MTW » Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:26 am

I can only get Fawcett's British wheat locally. Anyone done a hefe (or a Belgian wit) with British wheat malt and what were the results versus German or Belgian grains?

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Re: Hefeweizen with British Wheat Malt?

Post by rpt » Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:46 pm

I've made good wheat beer with British wheat malt. Never used continental wheat so can't compare.

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Re: Hefeweizen with British Wheat Malt?

Post by Rookie » Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:33 pm

I've never used British wheat malt, but there's no reason that you can't make a good hefeweizen with it.
If you use one of those bananaish, bubble gumish yeasts you'll be hard pressed to pick out which wheat malt was used.
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Re: Hefeweizen with British Wheat Malt?

Post by MTW » Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:44 am

Thanks both. I have a vial of WLP300 ready to go, so yes it's a nice bananary yeast!

I've only done one hefe so far, which was with Belgian wheat. I was just concerned about opening up another variable in a style I'm trying to nail, though if someone can tell me there's virtually no difference in the composition of the malt, I can pick up the British malt locally and avoid an unnecessary mail order right now.
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Re: Hefeweizen with British Wheat Malt?

Post by Rookie » Tue Jan 26, 2016 11:55 pm

MTW wrote:Thanks both. I have a vial of WLP300 ready to go, so yes it's a nice bananary yeast!

I've only done one hefe so far, which was with Belgian wheat. I was just concerned about opening up another variable in a style I'm trying to nail, though if someone can tell me there's virtually no difference in the composition of the malt, I can pick up the British malt locally and avoid an unnecessary mail order right now.
Give it a go with what you can get locally. With a yeast like you plan to use the malts play a background role.
I'm just here for the beer.

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