A Tale of 3 Weizen
Posted on: July 16, 2011
- In: Brewing
- 11 Comments
I’ve been a fan of Schneider Weisse for a while now, their Hopfen-Weisse is lovely and @JamesClayBeers mentioned that it was *Amarillo hopped, and Schneider are bringing out a Nelson Sauvin hopped special version.
So I’ve got a vague brewing plan… having just started waking up some out of date Whitelabs WLP300 Hefeweizen yeast.
Current garage malt stocks are about half a sack each of Lager and Wheat malts, with a few kilos of Weyermann Munich I & II along with lots of cara/crystal-esque malts.
I’ve started the yeast off in 1 Litre of 1040 wort, which will hopefully get going ok, I’ll then add 2 or 3 Litres more after decanting the beer off the yeast sediment and let it ferment out and again decant off some of the beer then split the yeast 3-ways for three different Hefeweizen. One will be German hopped, one American Hopped and another will use New Zealand hops.
*Thanks to the kind email reply from Sandra at www.schneider-weisse.de I now know that its the Brooklyn Brewery Hopfen-Weisse which is hopped with Amarillo and the Schneider is hopped with Saphir. – Its brilliant when breweries are helpful towards homebrewers, gives you that warm fuzzy feeling 🙂
The following recipes could change! (assume Mash Efficiency: 75 %) I’d probably treat my liquor to a Lager profile and I would be using Protofloc copper finings.
Nelson Weizen – Brewday #1 Complete
- Wheat Malt – 50%
Lager Malt – 45%
CaraHell – 5% - Nelson Sauvin – 13.0 % @ 60 mins – 23g
Nelson Sauvin – 13.0 % @ 5 mins – 40g - Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.050
Bitterness: 40 EBU
Colour: 13 EBC
Amarillo Weizen – Brewday #2 Complete
- Wheat Malt – 50%
Lager Malt – 40%
Melanoidin Malt – 10% - Amarillo – 9.4 % @ 60 mins – 34g
Amarillo – 9.4 % @ 5 mins – 40g - Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.050
Bitterness: 40 EBU
Colour: 16 EBC
Then one of the following, either a Munich malt based or a really basic Hefe.
Munich Weißbier – Brewday #3 Complete
- Wheat Malt – 60%
Munich Malt I (Weyermann) – 30%
Munich Malt II (Weyermann – 10% - Hallertauer Hersbrucker – 2.9 % @ 60 mins – 20g
Hallertauer Mittlefruh – 4.1 % @ 60 mins – 20g
Hallertauer Hersbrucker – 2.9 % @ 10 mins – 10g
Hallertauer Mittlefruh – 4.1 % @ 10 mins – 10g - Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.050
Bitterness: 16 EBU
Colour: 15 EBC
Hefe
- Wheat Malt – 60%
Lager Malt – 40% - Hallertauer Hersbrucker – 2.9 % @ 60 mins – 40g
Hallertauer Hersbrucker – 2.9 % @ 10 mins – 20g - Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.050
Bitterness: 13 EBU
Colour: 5 EBC
Thoughts on recipes most appreciated, cheers 🙂
11 Responses to "A Tale of 3 Weizen"
July 19, 2011 at 5:44 pm
I’ll be using Protafloc finings to avoid having a layer of mud in the bottles that would take an age to clear. There will be enough yeast sediment in the bottles to give a good swirl for in-the-glass cloudiness.
July 19, 2011 at 9:28 pm
What about Dunkel Weizen? A little bit of wheat chocolate malt, and munich will give you something new 🙂
July 24, 2011 at 5:21 pm
(claps hands)
I adore Weizens, and love that you’re thinking of exploring things a little….keep me updated!
July 24, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Will do. I’m just growing the yeast up ready to split into 3 or 4, pitch one next week… either do a basic Hefe or the Nelson first I think 🙂
July 31, 2011 at 4:42 pm
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August 7, 2011 at 4:56 pm
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August 8, 2011 at 10:38 pm
At a recent meeting of the Tucson Homebrew Club, I had two hefeweizens next to each other. They were each brewed exactly the same way except for the yeast. One was brewed with WLP300, and the other with WLP380. The one with WLP300 was good, but the one with WLP380 was out of this world! It was an incredible difference. Something to think about for your next weizen. Judge for yourself. 🙂
August 9, 2011 at 7:15 am
The WLP300 will be my first experience of a Homebrew Hefeweizen yeast, I’ll give the 380 a go sometime later, after 3 German wheat beers I’m going to need to get a Stout and a couple of Pale ales on 🙂
August 21, 2011 at 4:04 pm
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July 19, 2011 at 9:18 am
It’s cool that Schneider Weisse got back to you. I’ve emailed quite a few breweries and just haven’t got any response. I know how brewers might not want to give away the whole recipe but still it’s good to get something back.
The recipes look good, if I were going to brew one of the bottom 2 it would be the hefe for something a bit lighter plus it’s nice and simple. Are you going to bother with finings though?