Evan,
Your comments on Saflager w34/70 were good ones and caught my attention as I am currently doing a starter of Saflager S-23 lager yeast. It's going into it's 3rd day in a cider bottle, and I'm not sure I trust what I'm seeing in its current activity to pitch it onto a 5 gallon batch of...
How did I fing this website? Well, I pulled up Google and punched in "liquorice stout" and a link to this website came up; it looked interesting, so I clicked it and registered.