REVIVAL ..... just bringing this back to life because I seen this yeast for the first time in a Brew Canada Red Beer kit I picked up to fill an empty keg for the holidays. I just pitched the thing in the bucket, fingers crossed, lets see if this yeast has gotten any better. Anyone else have any more recent experience with this yeast?
Edit: Checked it this morning and it was vigorously bubbling away. Now to wait to see how it attenuates, how well it clears, and most importantly how it tastes.
Post ferment edit: Went from 1.050 to 1.015 giving an attenuation of roughly 70% from what I can tell. Going to keg and see how it tastes. So far so good, it did well for an all extract and sugar recipe.
Tasting edit: Prob should have let it ferment for another week to see if it would drop a few more points, which it prob would due to the amount of yeast that was still in suspension. Beer has a bit of a sweet caramel taste to it and is actually pretty good, just couldn't drink 6 in a row. Yeast is very clean with little to no observed taste.
Final verdict: I would definitely use this yeast again, really glad I didn't chuck it and gave it a go, kind of wishing I had of actually saved some instead of pouring it down the drain when cleaning the fermenter. Who knows maybe in it's early days they were not taking care when shipping storing and all that good stuff. Worked well for me, hope this review helps anyone who stumbles upon this yeast in the future.