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Culturing yeast from your favorite commercial beer can be a critical step to making your clone hit its mark, we’ll show you how. Plus, tips on designing your own brewer’s garden.
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Besides being delicious and unique, hefe-weizen is a classic show-off beer. It’s also the perfect beverage to sip on a warm day. But can you convince your friends it’s supposed to have yeast in it?
Culturing yeast from your favorite commercial beer can be a critical step to making your clone hit its mark.
Successful brewing in the heat of summer or lagering without a refrigerator at any time of year requires the ability to control temperature sufficiently to assure that a particular yeast strain generates just enough flavor characteristics appropriate for the target beer style.
For those looking for a classic bavarian-style hefeweizen, you’ve come to the right place. You can trying altering the fermentation temperature to try to bring out either more banana-like esters or more clove-like phenolics.
