Safbrew WB-06

[Garth]

Got some of this last week from H&G, apparently it's only been released recently, bought it to use some wheat malt up,

anyone had any experience of it? will it produce the banana flavour like Brewferm does?

[Ross]

Still waiting for this one to arrive in Aus - Should be any day now.
What's the brewferm yeast you refer to? Is it a dried wheat yeast that produces good banana & clove?

cheers Ross

[Garth]

aye Ross, it's the Brewferm Blanche one, myself and a few others on here used it for Phil's Hefe recipe, and it did indeed have a bananary twang to it

[steve_flack]

Here's the spec sheet

http://193.238.150.33/SHARED/Doc_51019.pdf

[J_P]

Still waiting for this one to arrive in Aus - Should be any day now.
What's the brewferm yeast you refer to? Is it a dried wheat yeast that produces good banana & clove?

cheers Ross

I have had loads of banana and clove notes using Safbrew T58

[Garth]

thanks for that Steve, I forgot they did those sheets

JP, I think I used T-58 in a Styrian Stunner before, is that the one that can give spicy notes?

[J_P]

thanks for that Steve, I forgot they did those sheets

JP, I think I used T-58 in a Styrian Stunner before, is that the one that can give spicy notes?

According to the packet it does but all I got was bananas after drinking the sample jar when I bottled it. In its defence the banana worked really well with the dark malts I had used in the brew

[Garth]

Ah, so I take it it's still maturing, which one is on your rather extensive list? you beer hoarder you....

[J_P]

Ah, so I take it it's still maturing, which one is on your rather extensive list? you beer hoarder you....

Beer hoarder me never!

It's the thunderhead

[Garth]

so how long before that baby gets done in?

btw you must have some patience (which of course is an ideal trait in hbing)

[J_P]

It was bottled on the 2nd July but brewed on the 23rd June IIRC.

It was supposed to be a copy of thwaites Double Century and I wanted the spicy notes from the yeast to compliment the spicy bitter orange notes I got from the EKG s and Bramling Cross.

I wasn't that chuffed with the resultant bananas! Couple this with the fact my brew tent was destroyed by a freak lightening and hail storm I should have christened it something too rude to use in my signature

[Ross]

Interesting you got banana from T-58. i've used a few times & just got a typical Belgian spicyness, what temp did you ferment at?

Cheers Ross

[J_P]

Interesting you got banana from T-58. i've used a few times & just got a typical Belgian spicyness, what temp did you ferment at?

Cheers Ross

According to my greenhouse max/min thermometer it doesn't get above 18C in my back room. This said I haven't had too much Belgian beer so it could be Belgian spiciness, it just wasn't the spiciness I was after!

[Garth]

I had a bottle of that Thwaites Double the other night, it was canny, (from what I remember)