Bavarian Weissbier Kits

[Bruce]

Hi

Can anyone recommend any kits to make a Bavarian weissbier?

I've found kits available such as Muntons Conoisseurs range and Coopers Brewmaster Wheat beers. I've read on another post on this forum about Brewferm and Black Rock, these seem to produce Belgian Witbiers. Are kits to make a German wheat beer available?

Is any specialist apparatus required to make a wheat beer that would be different from that needed for Bitter and Belgian Ales?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Bruce

[scottish69]

Im currently making the brupaks bavarian weissbier kit, all dry ingredients.

Lovely addition of hop and grain bags to give a great flavour.

Recommended.

[J_P]

Getting that wheat beer flavour is all about the yeast in my opinion, WLP380 is the mutts nuts, it's a bit lively but gives that unmistakable German wheat beer flavour. The liquid yeast is well worth the additional expense

[Bruce]

How does a kit with 'dry ingredients' differ from a usual syrup kit?

[J_P]

You'll need to dissolve the dry spray malt in water and boil it up prior to adding it to your fermenter

[JayBee]

Definitely think about changing the supplied yeast for a dedicated wheat yeast. If you cant run to a liquid then WB 06 is a good dried one. I had a great result using it with my Coopers wheat beer and adding some dried curacao peel and a saaz t bag.

[Typhoon Tyke]

I've recently made a batch of Brupak West Riding Wheat. I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to get - a simple clear wheat beer or a cloudy heff weiss style brew.

I began drinking it last week (aged three weeks) and it has a pretty convincing Bavarian Heff Weiss flavour. So, I treat it like a heff wiess, pouring a bit, swilling the bottle, pouring the whole thing out, this way it looks the part too. It's going down great with me and everyone whose tasted it, so far. The final ABV was only 3.8%, so it's a little lower than I'd hoped and I'd have liked a bit more depth to it but chilled in the fridge it's a really refreshing drink.

I'm definately doing this one again - have a go, I don't think you'll regret it.

[simple one]

I agree, done two of those West Riding Kits. Both were great, but the second I brewed only 20 litres, getting nearer 5%. Tasted better, more depth.

I always fall back to them when I have had a bad AG day.