Bad lot of Safale US-05

[scottland]

I just want to comment on this, since those that had a big lag. Do you think your beers suffered from yeast stress then? Basically it seems since this happend to some people that maybe it was like underpitching then? Because of the vitality of the yeast?

No. Two of the beers I had poor ferments with scored in the 40s in BJCP comps (42 and 43). The beers taste fine. I had just used US05 so much, I knew its behavior pretty well, and lag times were longer, as were the ferments times.

I wouldn't hesitate to use US05 again. The 'bad' batches I originally complained both produced two first place beers.