A highly flocculent German wheat beer strain that is the perfect choice for use in Kristallweizen. This yeast strain produces a beautiful and delicate balance of banana esters and clove phenolics similar to the popular Wyeast 3068. However, this strain will sediment rapidly, resulting in bright beer without filtration. The balance can be manipulated towards ester production through increasing fermentation temperature, increasing the wort density, and decreasing the pitch rate. Over pitching can result in a near complete loss of banana character. Sulfur is commonly produced, but will dissipate with conditioning.
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How this yeast strain would behave in a typical fermentation.
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*Expected final gravity range for fermentation with this yeast. This simple calculator does not take alcohol tolerance into account.
Footnotes
Footnotes
* Rough estimate based on yeast form
** Hazy and thiolized are based on research from Omega Labs
*** Origins are often unreliable (hearsay) and difficult to determine