Anyone have experience with wyeast 3068 weihenstephaner?

[Junkyard]

We did our first batch with this strain and made a German hefe, it's Delish with nice clove characteristics. It was fermented at 22 celcius. If I wanted to make a banana bread brown ale how do I achieve more banana and less clove? My thoughts are to pitch lower and ferment higher temps. Can anyone verify?

[brewmaster 2011]

I use it in my Weiss. I only give it o2 for half the knock out and at 18c and let it rise to 20c your blow off bucket will smell of banana.

[Junkyard]

Our blow off smelled like rhino farts for the last one. How long does it take for your KO, and how many LPM O2?

[brewmaster 2011]

My knock outs last about an hour. I think i am about 2-5 lpm o2

[Junkyard]

Our KO takes about an hour as well, and I usually oxygenate at about .75 LPM the entire KO for Med gravity beers. Maybe I'll try ..3-.4 LPM for more nanner

[brewmaster 2011]

What is your starting gravity? mine is 12p 60% wheat.

[Junkyard]

1.049- 60% wheat, 12 lbs of agave nectar in a 3bbl batch

[Greenbushguy]

Underpitch

We did our first batch with this strain and made a German hefe, it's Delish with nice clove characteristics. It was fermented at 22 celcius. If I wanted to make a banana bread brown ale how do I achieve more banana and less clove? My thoughts are to pitch lower and ferment higher temps. Can anyone verify?

In our brewery we underpitch this strain and ferment out at 75F and get pretty good results. The key is to stress the yeast to get the banana esters. That's what Wyeast suggests on their website. This is definitely a sulfury strain and must be let condition post fermentation to clean up after itself. If you sample the wort mid-ferment in our brewery it tastes like a glass of farts. Nasty nasty farts.

[amcclai7]

Underpitch significantly, ferment warm, don't oxygenate heavily, no yeast nutrient, etc. Basically do everything bad to it you can and you'll get the banana. If you're into dried yeast Mangrove Jack Bavarian Wheat is the dried version of this strain and I love it!!

[vincemash]

if your looking for something like wells banana bread beer, get some of this stuff

http://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Imitation-Extract-16-Ounce-Plastic/dp/B005DS96S6