Best yeast for dunkelweizen and weisbock?

[breckenridge]

I'm planning to keep one of my taps loaded with dunkelweizen for the indefinitely long future, perfecting over a long period of time, carefully tweaking one element at a time.

What yeast do you all suggest that could work for both that and eventually a weisbock? I'm not a huge fan of big banana, I like it balanced with spice.

Thinking mostly WLP 300 or 380 (lhbs is a White Labs joint), and keeping temps fairly cool.

 

[wailingguitar]

I use Weihenstephan 68, currently get it from BSI (I don't think they sell to home brewers though)… anyway, that seems to be White Labs 300. I use it for Hefeweizen, Dunkelweizen and Weizenbock.. it works great for all three and the degree of banana varies with ferment temps and so on so you can get a none to a little to a lot. If you are concerned, I would call White Labs and say I want to do X, this is the equipment I have, how do I need to tweak it?

 

[Bassman2003]

I use WLP300 as well. For Dunkleweizen I keep the fermenter at 62F and it turns out very much like a true German example. Even more so than when I brew hefeweizen.

Dunkleweizen is one of Bavaria's treasures. I use the "Dan Gordon" recipe he gave on the Brewcasters show which is used for Gordon Biersch Dunkleweizen. A lot of step mashes and some difficult to find grains but it is quite a nice beer for homebrewing.

 

[govner1]

WY3068


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