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Offline flbrewer

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Berliner Weisse Brewers Yeast
« on: June 10, 2015, 06:46:46 am »
I'm going to give a Berliner Weisse a try shortly based on Michael Tonsmeire's direction in American Sour Beers. His hybrid mash style for homebrewing includes pitching a brewers yeast, lacto, and brett. Fruit down the road is optional.

My question is which brewers yeast would be a good compliment to this style?

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Re: Berliner Weisse Brewers Yeast
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2015, 07:03:27 am »
I think WY1007 would be the traditional choice, and that's what I use.

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Re: Berliner Weisse Brewers Yeast
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2015, 07:05:40 am »
German ale yeast, or anything neutral.
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Re: Berliner Weisse Brewers Yeast
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2015, 03:47:55 pm »
I have had the best results with WY 1007 German Ale, and good results with US-05. 

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Re: Berliner Weisse Brewers Yeast
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2015, 09:34:56 pm »
1007 is the preferred yeast. It is a stronger acid producer and is therefore more likely to tolerate low pH. However, I recently used US-05 in a wort soured to 3.1 pH and that yeast did a very nice job in attenuating that Berliner to 1.010. The low pH did slow that yeast down, but it finished.
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