My friend and I brewed an IPA two and a half weeks ago and our LHBS only had two packs of the yeast we wanted to use when we needed four (no time for starter on this one unfortunately had to fork out the extra $). We split the 10 gallon batch into two 6.5 carboys and one carboy used wyeast (1968) london ESB and the other we used british ale (wyeast 1098). We just racked both to separate secondaries and they are completely different colors. The london esb one looks, smells, and tastes like a pale ale should. The british ale one looks sorta like a hefe and doesn't taste like I imagined it would. Anyone have experience with the british ale yeast? Also, is it normal for two different yeasts to produce such different colored beer using the same wort?
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