English Hops in a Wheat beer???

[WishboneBrewery]

Seeing as Hefeweizen is kind of 60% Wheat & 40% Lager with just a bittering addition, is it really going to matter which bittering hops you use?
Could, Bobek, Herkules, Pilot, First Gold, WGV, Willamette, Target, Bramling Cross, Progress or Admiral do the job just as well... is the general Hersbrucker hop flavour in a Hefe hidden behind the yeast character and the full boil??

Cheers

[pokerswazi]

I'd say that your assumption is correct. Bittering hops do give some flavour but at the EBU's required for a bavarian style wheat beer you would probably be fairly safe using any hop you liked. I would go for it...

[leedsbrew]

I've only ever used german hops in my weisse beers but I did just use Willamette in a belgian wit and it tastes awesome Do it

[WishboneBrewery]

Fair enough then...
I just used my last Hersbrucker and I'm trying to have a bit of a Hop-Rotation to keep it fresh init!

[Rookie]

I have goldings growing in my back yard and would not hesitate to use them in a wheat beer.

[WishboneBrewery]

[lancsSteve]

bobek woud be lovely - a little more belgian maybe but should citrussy / spiciness should complement it really well. (May have to try that myself - used them in my witbier)

Willamette as mittelfruh descendent would be good too which Aleman suggests - I'd go low alpha though rather than high so you get a little bit of a hop bed and no harshness.