Anyone familiar with the Elysian Ale yeast?

[rtstrider]

Hey all! Elysian has been gracious enough to send a plate of their house ale yeast my way. I've never propagated yeast from a plate but have a ton of Strains in the freezer bank. I'm really looking forward to the challenge! With that said any ideas on what the house ale strain might bring to the table? Looks like Escarpment may have provided their house strain to the homebrew market for a quick minute so that'll be the fermentation guidelines used. I've also heard murmurs this might be Imperial Corporate.

Plan is to prop up the yeast and bank it in the freezer. First batch will probably be a plain blonde ale fermented around 64f just to get a feel for the strain. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

 

[dmtaylor]

Elysian is closely related to Wyeast 1056. I'd expect it to behave similarly to 1056. And it is indeed even more closely related and almost identical to Imperial A30 Corporate. All are members of the large "Chico" yeast family.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/thread...f-white-labs-yeast.642831/page-2#post-8916547

 

[rtstrider]

Goodie pack came in!

 

[kev211]

Not familiar with their yeast, but just came to say that its pretty cool that they sent you that pack and the hand written note. Not many companies still believe in good customer service. I make an effort to patronize the ones that do.

 

[couchsending]

It’s weird yeast. You can buy it from Imperial as A30 corporate. It has this red fruit ester and has a really odd fermentation. It tends to produce a huge krausen well into fermentation and it’s rather diacetyl prone. Honestly there are many yeast I’d chose before this one.

 

[rtstrider]

It’s weird yeast. You can buy it from Imperial as A30 corporate. It has this red fruit ester and has a really odd fermentation. It tends to produce a huge krausen well into fermentation and it’s rather diacetyl prone. Honestly there are many yeast I’d chose before this one.

Think it would work ok with a blonde ale for learning purposes? Not too sure this would be a daily driver, but, I'd like to at least try the strain once to get a feel for it. Also really curious to try my luck stepping it up from the agar plate since this will be my first time.

 

[dmtaylor]

As learning experience, anything in a blonde ale is a great way to try it out. Go for it.

 

[rtstrider]

It’s weird yeast. You can buy it from Imperial as A30 corporate. It has this red fruit ester and has a really odd fermentation. It tends to produce a huge krausen well into fermentation and it’s rather diacetyl prone. Honestly there are many yeast I’d chose before this one.

Also do you think ALDC might help with Diacetyl reduction with this strain? I've been using ALDC now for insurance and it's definitely helped both with diacetyl reduction and speeding up maturation time prior to cold conditioning

 

[dmtaylor]

I'm sure ALDC works great in any beer.

...IF you don't mind cheating. I myself am not a cheater.

 

[rtstrider]

I'm sure ALDC works great in any beer.

...IF you don't mind cheating. I myself am not a cheater.

 

[couchsending]

I will cheat all day. ALDC is a god sent especially for hoppy beer. Still do forced tests on everything to make sure. Hop creep is a b*tch and incredibly unpredictable.

I’m sure ALDC would help with that yeast. I just think there are plenty of yeasts that produce a much better profile than that one.