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Date: 08 Nov 2006 17:22:17
From: JS
Subject: What's Your Fave Brit Yeast?
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With all the British yeasts available, I was curious what all you
experienced brewers found to be the best. So, consider this an
informal survey that we can all learn from.
Please indicate your favorite one or two, whether dry or liquid (or
slant), and for which styles they work best.
Perhaps also state your least favorite(s), and the reasons why.
Thanks!
John S.
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 05:55:36
From: Chris Mikkelson
Subject: Re: What's Your Fave Brit Yeast?
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In article <mrl4l2pft0l204ccmhb6jg75uv0v6c729f@4ax.com >,
JS <jayceeessfouratfrontiernetdotnet > wrote:
>With all the British yeasts available, I was curious what all you
>experienced brewers found to be the best. So, consider this an
>informal survey that we can all learn from.
>
>Please indicate your favorite one or two, whether dry or liquid (or
>slant), and for which styles they work best.
White Labs seasonal Essex Ale yeast was good enough
to make me try my hand at culturing to keep it
available year-round.
It brings out the nutty/bready flavors, so it shines
in most brown ales and porters, and some stouts and
pale ales. One of my better IPAs as a simple malt bill
(pale + a bit of amber) with a crapload of Fuggles and
this yeast.
-Chris
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 15:28:09
From: rb
Subject: Re: What's Your Fave Brit Yeast?
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JS wrote:
> With all the British yeasts available, I was curious what all you
> experienced brewers found to be the best. So, consider this an
> informal survey that we can all learn from.
>
> Please indicate your favorite one or two, whether dry or liquid (or
> slant), and for which styles they work best.
>
> Perhaps also state your least favorite(s), and the reasons why.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John S.
>
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I quite like wlp002 english ale. I have used it in pales, browns and
stouts. This isn't as attenuative as others, but I take this into
account when planning a recipe (ie that it might be a little 'sweeter').
It also settles out very well. I have even made a reasonable cider with
it as well!
My other fave is wlp023 burton ale - lots of character! I use it in some
stouts.
rb
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 03:19:16
From: Andy Davison
Subject: Re: What's Your Fave Brit Yeast?
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On Wednesday 08 November 2006 22:22, JS <jayceeessfouratfrontiernetdotnet >
wrote:
> Please indicate your favorite one or two, whether dry or liquid (or
> slant), and for which styles they work best.
>
> Perhaps also state your least favorite(s), and the reasons why.
I used to like Marston's yeast a lot when they made Tesco own-brand beers. I
haven't even seen Marston's Oyster Stout lately in the supermarkets I
frequent but that uses the same yeast. I used to step up the yeast from 4
bottles of the beer (usually the Tesco Stout or IPA). It wasn't as bland as
Nottingham but was far more flocculant than Windsor is. The other one I
have cultured from bottles is Fuller's from the 1845 bottle conditioned
ale. This is another excellent yeast but I found it not as flocculant as
the Marston's. Steer well clear of Greene King (ex-Morland) Hen's Tooth.
The bottling yeast makes awful beer.
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Andy Davison
andy [at] oiyou [dot] ukfsn [dot] org
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 02:05:46
From: Artarius
Subject: Re: What's Your Fave Brit Yeast?
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/my 2 cents ON
I just pitched English - White Labs 002 on Poor Richard's ale (all grain) 3
days ago.
Starter 1.10L at 1.030 gravity as per mrmalty.com's pitch calculator, on
homemade stir plate in a erlenmeyer flask 2L and no yeast nutrient.
The yeast looked like "The Blob" in the tube, propigated like egg drop
soup -large whisks of floaty sticky yeasties.
After 3 days I pitched it and it smelled bad -like sulfer and sour milk. I
thought it was a bad batch even tho accord to date it was young yeast.
It took 12 hours to take off, not even a blow-off -normal ferment, well
brisk as the fermentation lock was going every second and after 3 days has
slowed to every 8sec at 69-71deg in the fermentation fridge. The yeast looks
like little rocks in the carboy.
But the smell is fantastic I must say, and the yeasties in the wort look
alive even generating currents as they work!
I'm not sure I'm qualified to report as I did only 2 batches of extract, a
brown ale with nottingham, and a dark wheat with wyeast 3333 and now the
Poor Richard's all grain.
In fact ALL my future batches are now going to be all grain.
I am now decacnting a starter, in the same fashion, with yeast nutrient,
Wyeast 1272 American Ale yeast II, only I am doing a 2L starter this time,
to go into a batch called Panama red. It looks like the normal yeast
starters I see on the web turning the extra light DME from a light red to
scool bus yellow in 2 days. and has decanted a little more yeast cells in
the bottom of the flask. I brew 2morrow and pitch this but I am not putting
any yeast nutrient into the wort as I believe that a normal ferment in the
carboy is paramount to getting all the flavor from the wort in an
unaccelerated ferment. Even tho the starter has been pumped as thus.
/my 2 cents OFF
"JS" <jayceeessfouratfrontiernetdotnet > wrote in message
news:mrl4l2pft0l204ccmhb6jg75uv0v6c729f@4ax.com...
> With all the British yeasts available, I was curious what all you
> experienced brewers found to be the best. So, consider this an
> informal survey that we can all learn from.
>
> Please indicate your favorite one or two, whether dry or liquid (or
> slant), and for which styles they work best.
>
> Perhaps also state your least favorite(s), and the reasons why.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John S.
>
> --
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 08:02:11
From: GeoffT
Subject: Re: What's Your Fave Brit Yeast?
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> >
> > Perhaps also state your least favorite(s), and the reasons why.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > John S.
> >
>
I'm personally not a big fan of WL Dry English Ale yeast (WLP007).
Generates a lot of heat and takes a long time for the beer to mature,
in my experience.
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 05:40:06
From:
Subject: Re: What's Your Fave Brit Yeast?
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JS wrote:
> With all the British yeasts available, I was curious what all you
> experienced brewers found to be the best. So, consider this an
> informal survey that we can all learn from.
>
> Please indicate your favorite one or two, whether dry or liquid (or
> slant), and for which styles they work best.
WY1968. Liquid from Wyeast. I just love the flavor profile. I really
like them in bitters. It brings out the malt without unbalancing the
bitterness if you ask me.
>
> Perhaps also state your least favorite(s), and the reasons why.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John S.
>
Bryan
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 13:09:19
From: John Bleichert
Subject: Re: What's Your Fave Brit Yeast?
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JS <jayceeessfouratfrontiernetdotnet > wrote:
> With all the British yeasts available, I was curious what all you
> experienced brewers found to be the best. So, consider this an
> informal survey that we can all learn from.
>
> Please indicate your favorite one or two, whether dry or liquid (or
> slant), and for which styles they work best.
>
> Perhaps also state your least favorite(s), and the reasons why.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John S.
>
My stock ale yeast is WLP005. Clean, clear, and attenuates very
well. I use their WLP013 London Ale yeast for my nut brown ales,
though.
I still haven't met a dry yeast I like - they all seem to have
this "wang" to them, for lack of a better term.
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John Bleichert syborg@earthlink.net
The heat from below can burn your eyes out!!
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