By the way I'm just finishing up a Schneider Weisse recipe using Munich Classic open fermented
Took off within 12hrs had a nice white pillow on top at 67F
The Munich Classic is a very good wheat beer yeast
It's my go to for what it's worth
In a pinch I've used wb-06 and many others
Your process is more important
Why would one drive 7 hrs to drink someone else's beer
I home brew so I don't have to drive to the package store down the road and drink someone else's inferior beer LOL
if you do open ferment you would scoop out some braun hefe to simulate the O2 ingress of the reall thing and also get the dead and dying yeast out of your wort which you don't want to do with a heffenwiezen since you are going for the yeast esters
I believe in theory anyway
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/sites/default/files/pdf_documents/library/exhibits/bicentennial/038900000-003.pdf
This was cool in 76
They came past my house and set up camp on my neighbors farm
anyone brew anything special or doing something to mark the day
I was asked yesterday why I hadn't
to be honest I hadn't even thought of it
1976 was a lot of excitement that I remember
It just seems like a lot nonsense and manufactured excitement around for the 250th
here there is some...
Well I was lining up some wheat beers but thin I'll change track and do some more lagers
I had 4 different ones kegged I'm down to one and a half
Been hitting them pretty hard
Probably go with my Bo Pilsner 1st then the dark Czech Lager the Ofest/festbier on the repitch