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favorite yeast
I keep looking online for the next yeast to buy but i cant seem to make up my mind so i wanted to get some ideas from everyone, so whats everyones yeast of choice for making pale ales and IPA's? American or English.
Wyeast 1028 London Ale and Wyeast 1056 American Ale are my usuals for these beers. However, I made an American IPA with a Wyeast Thames Valley that turned out spectacular! Lately I've been using the Wyeast American Ale II but haven't developed much of an opinion on it yet. I'm also waiting to try a DIPA that I just made with a combination of the 1028 and 1056 strains
If you're planning on using 1056, you might as well save yourself some money and work, and go with the Safale US-05 dry yeast. It used to be called US-56, and I think Wyeast got a bit upset about it (thus the name change), because they're basically the same thing. Except the US-05 has an adequate cell count in one packet to successfully ferment and condition big beer. My best success so far is a 9.2% IIPA. Did I mention that dry yeast costs about two bucks. Forget about eight dollar yeast and yeast starters. For neutral yeast, go with dry. Now if only there were a good dry yeast for a Saison...
Love using WLP028 in IPA, it attenuates great and has a great flavor, one you wouldn't expect for an IPA.
Been experimenting w/ wyeast 1099 whitbread too.
No doubt, I like Safale-04. Its an English strain.
I have noticed that this yeast performs great right out of the package, but if you pitch slurry from a previous batch, its even better.
I tend to brew ordinary bitter regularly, so I have plenty of cake available to pitch in a couple new batches of something else. Porters, stouts, browns, IPA, pale ales...oh and Ordinary Bitter!
British AleWLP005 was one i was looking at, has anyone used it before?
BrewLuva wrote:
British AleWLP005 was one i was looking at, has anyone used it before?
I just pitched a WLP005 started today...we're making a honey porter, and I liked the characteristics for that strain....hopefully, it will be bubbling in a few hours..........
I use it in my DFH Indian brown, I've made it a few times and have a batch in primary right now, I have used the slurry in porters too, good stuff.
it looks like both of you are using it for browns and porters, any opinion as far as it beening used in an English IPA or Pale Ale?
Never tried it. It is an english ale yeast- go for it. I threw in the edinburgh to an IPA on a whim because I saw the description on white labs of the versatility so I said why not? and everyone who tries it likes it and dosn't know why. You could stumble onto a nice combo, I don't think you can hurt by it.