Yeast For American Wheat Ale
I am getting prepped for my next brew: Honey Wheat Ale Recipe
I was reviewing the recipe and I started to think about the yeast strain that I chose. I think that the clean fermenting California yeast will be fine, but there are a couple of other strains that might be nice.
Wyeast American Wheat 1010 - This strain ferments dry and produces beers that are crisp and low in esters. Ferments in the 58° to 74° range.
White Labs WLP320 - This strain does produce some slight banana and clove flavors. It is not as clean as the 1010…but it may add some flavors to complement the honey malt. Ferments in the 65° to 69° range.
I think I am going to stick with the WLP001 but if my local homebrew shop is out of it, I may be in the market for some of these other strains.
on June 7th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
If you can find the dry SafAle-05 at your shop instead of WLP001 you should be pretty happy. They are both supposed to be the chico strain.
Somewhere I heard that the Wyeast 1010 was a kolsch strain, but I can’t remember where I had heard this.
I’m not sure if its out all the time yet or if its just a seasonal strain but Wyeast Denny’s Favorite 50 (WY2450 I think) would be a great one.
on June 8th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I just brewed an American Wheat yesterday using SafAle-05. It’s the 2nd time I’ve used this yeast for an American Wheat. The 1st time turned out great. A nice clean tasting brew…