I'm planning my next few brews and am thinking of doing a Czech pils, and I could use some advice on the yeast, as I'm not nearly as familiar with lager yeasts as I am with ales.
I tend to brew new styles, rather than repeat recipes. And for the past year or so, I've been keeping a yeast bank from overbuilt starters. At this point, I have a good mix of staples and fun extras that covers pretty much everything I routinely brew (Bell's house yeast, Imperial Pub, Cosmic Punch, a Belgian abbey strain, Lutra kveik, a German ale yeast, a kolsch yeast, etc.). Whenever I have to pick up a new yeast, I try and get something fairly versatile that I could use on other beers.
With that in mind, does anyone have thoughts on a strain that would be good for a Czech Pils and would also be versatile enough to keep around in my yeast bank for some other continental lagers? If the answer is that I should be using a different yeast for this than for any other type of lager, that's fine, too.
I tend to brew new styles, rather than repeat recipes. And for the past year or so, I've been keeping a yeast bank from overbuilt starters. At this point, I have a good mix of staples and fun extras that covers pretty much everything I routinely brew (Bell's house yeast, Imperial Pub, Cosmic Punch, a Belgian abbey strain, Lutra kveik, a German ale yeast, a kolsch yeast, etc.). Whenever I have to pick up a new yeast, I try and get something fairly versatile that I could use on other beers.
With that in mind, does anyone have thoughts on a strain that would be good for a Czech Pils and would also be versatile enough to keep around in my yeast bank for some other continental lagers? If the answer is that I should be using a different yeast for this than for any other type of lager, that's fine, too.