To Chill or not to Chill DunkelWeizen

[The Gas Man]

First batch of Dunkelweizen is almost finished fermenting.

Normally I wiould now crash chill all my beers before kegging to get them to filter.

Should I do the same thing with a Dunkelweizen, considering the yeast is what gives it the weizen taste?

 

[NickB]

I don't filter my Weizens.....

It will strip some of the flavour and aroma out of the style IMHO.

Cheers

 

[carniebrew]

Agreed, no irish moss, gelatin or cold crashing for my weizens either.

 

[slash22000]

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure the entire point of those styles of beers is to basically be as cloudy as possible.

 

[carniebrew]

Except a kristallweizen of course. All (ok maybe not all) of the flavour with none of the cloud. From that article it sounds like Germany's version of Corona....

 

[mikec]

Isn't it effectively going to be crash chilled in the keg though? Granted not quite as cold, but the yeast will drop out never the less.