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***Yooper*** · 04-11-2012, 08:10 PM

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Where's your Penguins Jersey?

In the rag bag. It makes a nice toilet bowl cleaner.

I was just thinking about nottingham again. One of the reasons I loved it a few years ago was because it was about 1/3-1/2 the price of S04 and s05. But now it costs more (I saw it at $4 a pack!) and I think I'll stick with my favorite strains for most American ales. I always have Denny's Favorite 50 for many beers, and I use two others: Wyeast 1335 (English, plus some of my IPAs and oatmeal stout), and White Labs 001 (American beers with lots of hops) for liquid. I use S04/S05 for my dry yeast needs.

I occasionally use other strains, like for lagers or a special beer, but I can get by for about 90% of my beers with the above strains since I don't make many Belgians or other beers that need a specialty strain.

brewit2it · 04-11-2012, 08:10 PM

I pretty much use Notty and S05 as my two house yeasts. I can believe they are from the same strain and similar, and both make nice clean pale ales, but I do notice some differences.

Notty ferments out faster for me, especially in the mid 60's and below and I don't find S05 gives a "cleaner" tasting final product. The odd thing is Notty give a smaller Krausen than the huge one I get with S05 but still finishes faster and both attenuate well. To me Notty is very neutral, even more so than S05. The ales I make with S05 do seem to preserve more hop aroma (which might just be a function of taking a little longer than the notty to finish, and I feel like the S05 ales have a mild ester flavor where as the Notty ales have nearly none, hence the observation that you can't get a much "cleaner" ale yeast than Notty, if by cleaner we mean almost no detectable yeast character.

So basically if I am going for a more pronounced hoppy pale ale or IPA I use S05, for my regular house pale ale I prefer Notty. By the way Notty is also great for an american wheat such as a Blue Moon clone specifically because you will end with almost no estery flavor profile so the 2 row, wheat, and orange/corriander flavors can shine through.