Hoegaarden and Dry Yeast

[ozcah]

Hiya,

I'm thinking of putting down a Hoegaarden clone in the next week or so.
Recipe follows.

I was looking on Craftbrewer today and there is a new Dry Wheat Yeast available. They have a yeast equivalent of the Safbrew WB-06. I'm guessing this has only recently been released.

I also have a packet of Dry Belgian Yeast (T58) at home at the moment.

Any ideas which yeast would be better suited to a hoegaarden?

Here's my recipe.
1 can Coopers Wheat Beer Kit
1 can Coopers Liquid Wheat Malt
Orange Peel of 1 orange
15g Corriander seeds (crushed but not too much)
15g Tettnang Hops pellets

Orange Peel and corriander seeds boiled for about 20 minutes with the wheat malt and a couple of litres of water. Hops added to last 5 minutes.

Fill to 23L.

Done this before came out nice though with a different hop but tettnang are supposed to be good for wheat beers and I have some in the freezer.

Used the K97 yeast in the past as there weren't any belgian dry yeasts available. Now there are two which fit the description - too many decisions!

Any suggestions/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Catchya
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[Kevnlis]

The WB-06 is closer to style. As for the recipe I would suggest using mandarines, 2-3 peels in the boil, crush the corriander seeds a bit as well. You can put it in a stocking leg which has been preboiled, then just pull it out and add the hops with 5 min remaining.

[ozcah]

Thanks Kevnlis.

I have seen a few recipes calling for mandarines so I might try that instead. I used orange last time and it came out a winner.

I think I'll get the WB-06 yeast. It's nice they are making some of these more exotic yeast available in dry form.

Catchya
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