Brewday: Hefe

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:27 pm

Brewing the following this pm:

ABV 4.1%
IBU 13
Mashing @ 68Â°
Eff 75%

2kg Wheat
1.2 kg MO
700g Munich

Hersbrucker 2.1 AA, 35g full boil
Hersbrucker 2.1 AA, 20g 15 mins

Fermenting @ 21Â°C with WB-06

Not a quick win as am bottling but hopefully this will be ready in 3 weeks.

Matt

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:31 pm

Have a gooden Matt

SiHoltye · Post by **SiHoltye** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:31 pm

I was gonna do a hefe today but don't have the Halletauer Hersbrucker for it. Good luck with that, it'll still be quicker than a bitter even if you do have the fag of bottling.
Have you used that yeast before? I've got it but not used it yet.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:39 pm

Cheers chaps.

I'm a WB-06 virgin too. Hoping it responds well to a DFS.

I'll have half a gold block of Hersbrucker left and it will probably sit in the freezer. Do you want the rest Si? Happy to whack it in the post tomorrow if its useful to you.

Matt

SiHoltye · Post by **SiHoltye** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:43 pm

Very kind, but I've got 6 corni's full and am cooling Tabby's Best Bitter at the mo. Good job the wife is at work, she's been very tolerant of beer stuff lately - can't last

I would have had them though, cheers matey

.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:49 pm

No worries mate.

I'm doing alright too

although I might not be if I had 6 cornies on the go and one in the fv

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:55 pm

enjoy, keep us post on what you think of the WB-06

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:39 pm

Will do OB.

Sparge finished and boiling now.

spearmint-wino · Post by **spearmint-wino** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:02 pm

Have a good'un matt, any piccies?

I'm planning a dunkelweizen next I think so I'll be watching how yours goes with interest

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:03 pm

Cheers Dan,

I didn't take any pics as my setup isn't all that photogenic. What's in the grain bill for your dunkelweizen?

I hit 22.5 litres @ 1040 on the nose. A good brewday was had and I managed to a days work around it.

Yeast head has formed in 3hrs, good old DFS

awalker · Post by **awalker** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:50 am

I have recently used WB 06 on a couple of batches of wheat beer.

Its really nice I know its probably not quite as good as any of the liquid yeast but it can be easier to use as you dont worry too much about waking it up first like a liquid yeast to check its viability.

Its another yeast thats made it in too mystores cupboard, alongside s04 and us05 as everyday yeasts.

It will soon be ready Matt then you can let us know what you think

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:19 am

Interesting info AW. What temp did you go for when you used it?

awalker · Post by **awalker** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:30 am

Matt wrote:Interesting info AW. What temp did you go for when you used it?

Went for 17oC on both batches it seemed to work quite well.
It will be interesting to see the difference between 17oC and 21oC

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:03 pm

Ah, cool, we have a good point of comparison. Will post up what I find.

Bazil · Post by **Bazil** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:34 pm

My last wheat beer was fermented with WB-06 at 22C and it tasted almost identical to Wyeast 3068.

To be honest I found the WB-06 far nicer, youâ€™ll have a cracker of a brew there.

Cheers
Barry

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