what yeast for Wheat beer

[Frenchie Laurence]

do you need special yeast for wheat beer or is any ale one ok?

[mysterio]

If you're after the German style of wheat beer, White Labs WLP300 or Wyeast Weihenstephan Wheat 3068 will get you the classic banana & clove flavours. I've used these both and they're excellent.

Theres also dried yeasts Brewferm Blanche and Safbrew WB-06, I can't vouch for these but people on here have had success with the former.

[oblivious]

American wheats just use any ale yeast

If you want a hefe WLP300 is a good choice, for belgian wit T-58/Brewferm Blanche

[steve_flack]

Depends what sort you want to make. British and American wheat beers just use a normal yeast by and large as they are fairly clean tasting. For both the German and Belgian varieties then you'd need a different yeast. If you're using dried yeast T-58 would probably do a decent job in a Belgian and the Danstar Munich would probably work in a German.

[oblivious]

the Danstar Munich would probably work in a German.

Have you tried it yet?

I wounder if its any better than SAFBREW WB-06?

[steve_flack]

Reports seem pretty promising but I've not used it myself. There's a thread on the Aussie HBers forum here

[awalker]

Half way through a keg of wheat beer using SAFBREW WB-06

Its nice very comparable to WL 400 but a lot cheaper.
I have just ordered another 3 packets to keep us in wheat beer over summer.
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