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I've got a wheat beer fermenting at 20 degrees, its down to 1012 so I had a taste, very strong clove flavour and no banana. Way too much clove for my liking. I was planning on dry hopping with Motueka but I'm also thinking of chucking in some orange zest too. Anybody have any tips on anything else I could 'dry hop' or whether I'm on the right track already?

Cheers

I normally put orange peel in 5 mins before end if boil, not sure it will add anything when fermenting. The clove will lessen, strong flavours in fermentation will lesson and the banana should be more pronounced. What yeast did you use?

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i wouldn't try hiding it. just let it mellow out.
next time ferment at a higher temperature if you want more banana and less clove :)

Thanks lads, I used safale k-97. I poured the wort driectly onto the yeast cake from a previous batch just to see if it'd work. Then I heard how underpitching is best for wheat beers as the stressed yeast is what brings out those the typical wheat beer flavours...d'oh

K97 wouldn't be ideal for producing banana flavors anyway, it's quite a clean yeast.
if you want banana flavors try a hefeweizen yeast
for example wlp 300 or 368, or wb06.

To increase banana more, stress the yeast out.
Underpitch, barely aerate, ferment on the higher end of the yeast's recommended temperature range.
All of these things will make the yeast s**t itself and go bananas

Quote from: LordEoin on May 09, 2016, 11:00:05 AM

Underpitch, barely aerate, ferment on the higher end of the yeast's recommended temperature range.
All of these things will make the yeast s**t itself and go bananas

Stone him for such blasphemy!
A speaker at Alltech presented a paper where they had a nano microphone recording beer yeast propagate. They played the sound recorded at 15 20 25 and 50 degrees C.
I kid you not the high pitched noise at 50 was like listening to somebody having their toenails pulled.
Yeast have feelings too

I'd like to hear that

Dogs in the neighbourhood were howling the pitch was so high

Say NO to lab testing on yeast!

I would like to hear it though  :D

apparently yeast are most active to this pitch.
Brings a whole new meaning to 'pitching yeast'  ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33qV3d3U0q4

Play that on a set of speakers next to the fermenter like the Mozart for babies myth :P

I just talk to mine and sing along with the airlock, we all do that right?
https://youtu.be/gQFo3Lg2MAc

we need some airlock blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ZEYMl9VIs

That was brill :). Loved the way he played along with the water pump as it tapped out a beat :) :-*

Quote from: CH on May 10, 2016, 01:48:57 PM
I just talk to mine and sing along with the airlock, we all do that right?
https://youtu.be/gQFo3Lg2MAc

I'm pretty sure I've hugged my fermenter once or twice, I'm a brewhugger :D

Quote from: LordEoin on May 10, 2016, 02:45:36 PM
we need some airlock blues

Or maybe some folk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI8P5Fhc5yU

Ha ha love the water pump blues.
Haead this Sierra Nevada song on a podcast the other day, pretty catchy!
https://youtu.be/sOybEA1dTnQ