Recipe For An Erdinger Clone

[Garry]

Clone Brews by Szamatulski has a recipe for Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier. They recommend wyeast 3056 or 3333 @ 20-22'C. They don't do a step mash.

[Garry]

They also use only 1 hop addition @ 90min. Hallertau Hersbrucker to 2.3 HBU.

[johnrm]

IBU?

[LordEoin]

HBU = %AA x Ounces
example for 2.3 HBU would be a half ounce at 4.6%AA (aprox 15grams of Hallertauer Hersbrucker would be pretty close)

IBU comes from the amount of those alpha acids that are isomerized in the boil.

[Garry]

I had no idea what HBU was when I posted! I just copied it verbatim from the book  The total IBU of the recipe is 10.

L'Eoin's 15g sounds right.

[johnrm]

Also, HBU differs depending on who it comes from.
John Palmer says it is Homebrew Bitter Units.
I have seen it as Home Bittering units or Hop Bittering Units.

Regardless, once the math is consistent then the TLA is irrelevant.

Moving on...

[LordEoin]

the maths is indeed the same

[Damien M]

Homebrew Bitter Units is a measure of how bad you feel when your batch is infected. 

Home Bittering units is how bad the members if your home feel based on the volume or intensity of statements like "whats that smell?" or "Ah Da! Brewing Again!!" 

Hop Bittering Units is based on the calculation %AA x Ounces= HBU 

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[Eoin]

I bet Brian is sorry he asked now haha

[Damien M]

I believe its called Topic Drift or is that a Bar of chocolate? I like chocolate! I must make a Chocolate Stout!! Any body have a good recipe!? :

[LordEoin]

Do they still make Topic chocolate?

They were good

[Eoin]

Do they still make Topic chocolate?

They were good

Try starting a post on Topic....

[LordEoin]

What? I was just keeping the thread on Topic! 

Anyway, the place would be boring without a bit of meandering.
And not as informative, apart from the Erdinger specific information this tangent has educated many people all about HBU and more about bottle yeast.
Which brings me back to the original topic of Wheatbeers

Scheider Weiss has the primary yeast strain in the bottle, some people have had great success with Paulaner too, most others filter the beer and add lager yeast for bottle conditioning.

[johnrm]

Sir Blunt in Cork has had excellent results with Paulaner.

[mr hoppy]

Does Paulaner actually have a weiss strain in the bottle. I'd wondered.