Yeast for American Wheat Beer.

[Little Rock Brewing]

I got the Route Citra Six American Wheat AG kit from BrewUK. I also ordered a Safale WB06 with it, as recommended. But the yeast was missed off the order.
I really want to make this at the weekend but only have a range of other dry yeasts, most of the MJ Belgians, US05, Voss etc.
Are any suitable or should I get some "wheat" yeast?

 

[MickDundee]

American wheat beers usually use a fairly neutral yeast - I believe traditionally it used a yeast more akin to a kolsch yeast than a Hefeweizen one.

US05 is probably your best bet.


https://byo.com/article/american-wheat-style-profile/

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Easy - US-05, BRY-97 or something like K-97. Clean yeast is what distinguishes US wheats from their European cousins.

As an aside, WB-06 is a bit of an odd yeast. Despite Fermentis marketing it for wheat beers, it's unrelated to the standard hefe yeasts, it's more like a slightly weird member of the saison family, closely related to yeasts linked to Duvel like WLP570 and 1388, and WLP644 Sacch Trois.

And from personal experience, WB-06 trashes hop flavour, so it's not at all suited to something you're putting Citra etc into.

 

[Little Rock Brewing]

Excellent!
BrewUK offer 2 yeasts as options with the kit WB-06 and Wyeast 1010, but liquid yeast is no good for me as the kits take 2 weeks to arrive.

Good 'ol US-05 to the rescue, kind of makes sense too.

 

[MrRook]

K-97.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

CML Gretel or Kristallweizen.

 

[MrRook]

K-97.

As a matter of fact I have one planned for next month with K-97.

 

[Little Rock Brewing]

Just read about it and it certainly sounds good.
But as I want to brew this weekend it's going to be US-05.
I was tempted with the Voss as it's a cloudy beer and my Voss brews are all quite hazy!

 

[Brianbrewed]

I made American Wheat with both US05 and K97.
K97 was the better of the two but US05 was very nice.
Neutral yeast is key.
Never use German Wheat beer yeast.
German Wheat and American Wheat are totally different beasts

 

[krispn]

I've used WLP320 American Wheat which was good - it doesn't have the banana or clove character but keeps things cloudy. There is also Wyeast 1010 but I only have experience with the 320. I used it in a Raspberry wheat but I added the raspberries 'NEIPA style' on day 2 of fermentation as an experiment and was happy with the results. It was quite cloudy but didn't have the traditional wheat flavour so it was perfect for my experiment!

 

[MrRook]

I've used WLP320 American Wheat which was good - it doesn't have the banana or clove character but keeps things cloudy. There is also Wyeast 1010 but I only have experience with the 320. I used it in a Raspberry wheat but I added the raspberries 'NEIPA style' on day 2 of fermentation as an experiment and was happy with the results. It was quite cloudy but didn't have the traditional wheat flavour so it was perfect for my experiment!

1010 is my choice in liquid yeast.

 

[krispn]

I think they're a similar strain?