CL 980 Yeast

[alaskana]

Does anyone know of a suitable alternative for the CL 980 yeast strain? Here is the description of the yeast:

CL 980 American White Ale
74-76% apparent attenuation • low flocculation • 64-70°F fermentation range
Smooth with an exceptionally round, clean malt flavor.
American profile makes it an integral part of true unfiltered wheat beer.
Also good for American-style altbier.

The reason I'm asking is this yeast is only sold in large commercial volumes and I was hoping to find an alternative but very similar yeast that I could purchase in typical homebrewing quantities. BrewTek (brewers resource) labs used to be the ones that carried it but these days Brewing Science carries it but as I said only in commercial volumes. WYeast offers CL-50 as WYeast-1450, Denny's Favorite 50 but I can't find a version of CL 980 that they carry.

I'm trying to create an American Hefeweizen with this yeast, a cloudy hefeweizen without the banana, bubblegum and clove flavors normally present in German hefeweizens.

 

[TimTrone]

An alt yeast is very close to that. If you're wanting to use a dry strain its K97. Wyeast 1007 or the white labs kolsch strain would work well. IMO K97 or 1007 would be best.

 

[alaskana]

Tim, thanks for the speedy response! I will definitely give those yeasts a try and see which one comes closest to the beer I am trying to approximate.

 

[alaskana]

I'll let you know how how it turns out and which one worked the best.