re: OT: Home Brew

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Like taste difference

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Wheat beers are more fragrant and flavorful, they are cloudy not clear. Bitterness would be the same or less. The mouthfeel is thicker. Hefeweizen is a German type of wheat beer, I've been using the terms interchangeably, sorry. They usually have a fruitiness to the smell and flavor, although no fruit is traditionally added. The perceived fruitiness comes from the type of yeast that is used. I can go further into the biochemistry of that, if you wish.

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what makes them easier to brew?

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The type of yeast used for hefeweizens makes it's own flavors, such as the fuitiness I talked about above, that cover up some of the off-flavors that young beer has. This makes them finish fast. These yeast strains also have a very wide range of acceptable fermentation temperatures, and still get a quality result.

The hefeweizen extract comes with both barley and wheat maltose extract, so no special mixing or anything complicated.

Making a Lager such as Miller is actually very difficult, compared to making a hefeweizen. And they take months to taste good.