Phat tire yeast??? - Page 2

dunleav1 · 03-12-2009, 01:06 AM

I heard Peter Bouckaert (New Belgium's brewmaster) speak and he said that Fat Tire is not a Belgian strain. He also said La Folie came from an infected keg of Fat Tire.

noisy123 · 03-12-2009, 02:48 AM

I used 1056 in my Fat Tire clone. I love fat tire, but after having brewed my own, I like mine better. Fat Tire itself lacks the complexity of most of the clone recipes I have seen for it. That said, use a clean yeast and ferment in the mid 60s and I think you'll come out the same as Fat Tire on esters and phenolics (i.e. none).

gingerdawg · 03-12-2009, 03:43 AM

Could yeast be cultured from a Fat Tire bottle? Is it bottle conditioned?

**Scotty_g** · 03-12-2009, 04:04 AM

I've made the Fat Tire recipe out of Clone Brews and thought it was much better than commercial stuff. Then again, I live outside their distribution area so when I *was* able to get it, it may not have been very fresh.

First time I used the Wyeast VSS strain and it turned out excellent. Unfortunately, all of the cultures I saved from that were dead. The most recent batch used White Labs 530, and I just kegged it up the other day. We'll see how that turns out. That may not be the best yeast out there, but I needed the cake. It fermented at 72 F and in two weeks it went from 1.050 to 1.012, which was more-attenuated than the first batch (1.017, IIRC).