Any Wyeast or White Labs equivelant to that? Thanks for you help everyone!
Why? You're not happy unless you're spending more? heh
Seriously, why the heck would you waste money on a liquid version of Us-05???????
Us-05 IS the same strain, the famed Chico strain. In fact there's really no point in spending the extra bucks on 1056, and having to make a starter when you want a clean ale yeast.
I have found that a lot of new brewers especially, THINK they HAVE to use liquid yeast, but in reality most ales can be made with Notty, Windsor, Us-05, Us-04 and many lagers with basic Saflager.....7-8 bucks a pop for liquid as opposed to $1.50-2.50 for dry, with more cell count, is imho just a waste of money for the majority of a brewer's recipe bank...most commercial ales us a limited range of strains, and those liquid strains are really the same strains that the afore mentioned dry strains cover, for example Us-05 is the famed "Chico strain", so if you are paying 7-8 bucks for Wyeast 1056 American/Chico Ale Yeast, and you STILL have to make a starter to have enough viable cells, then you are ripping yourself off, in terms of time and money....
I use dry yeast for 99% of my beers, for basic ales I use safale 05, for more british styles I us safale 04 and for basic lagers I use saflager..
The only time I use liquid yeast is if I am making a beer where the yeast drives the style, where certain flavor characteristics are derived from the yeast, such as phenols. Like Belgian beers, where you get spicy/peppery flavors from the yeast and higher temp fermentation. Or let's say a wheat beer (needing a lowly flocculant yest) or a Kholsch, where the style of the beer uses a specific yeast strain that is un available in dry form.
But if you are looking for a "clean" yeast profile, meaning about 90% of american ales, the 05, or nottingham is the way to go. Need "Bready" or yeasty for English ales, then 04 or windsor. Want a clean, low profile lager yeast- saflager usually does the trick.
For this beer, you don't NEED to use a liquid yeast...we're talking the best clean/neutral ale yeast out there, and it is dry....anythig else is a waste.
I wouldn't even use pacman, though I thought the same thing as my brother le chat. But pacman is not that neutral...at different temps it has different profiles.
For this bet you need the most lceanest and most neutral yeast possible to mimic the clean and neutral profile of lager yeast...and you will not find anything better than US-05 for that.
I would even bet you would lose your bet, if you DIDN'T used -05...even using it's equivelent in liquid form.
Over pitch with two packs and you will win.