Favorite English yeast?

[Miraculix]

In my experience, nothing needed. It will be clear after one or one and a half weeks.

I have had a 2 litre pet bottle once, filled with a pub bitter, bottle carbed with yeast residue. The last poured pint from the bottle got 60% of the yeast from the bottle due to being stupid. I saw it clearing COMPLETELY in the glas within ten minutes.

This yeast does not need finings of any kind.

 

[G_robertus]

I'm also for Verdant in many English styles. The esters can get overwhelming, especially the vanilla yoghurt thing. However, I've noticed it's less of an issue when fermenting colder and/or increasing bitterness. 30+ IBUs seem to be my minimum to counteract some of the sweeter esters. Malt bitterness will help with that too. It's therefore my main light/medium stout yeast as well. It does great in dry, export or maybe even tropical stout. I've got a dry stout that reminds me of O'Hara's ready to keg made with Verdant.
I'm starting to explore what New England can do as well, but that's a bit more in the mixed review area. The one time I tried it in a light beer the bottles developed some kind of autolyse flavour that ruined everything I had left. I never had this happen before. Dark beers tend to work well with 5/6+% ABV, but I'd need to test that some more as well.

 

[Wigglebutts Brewery]

WLP002 my almost every brew yeast. Active ferment and drops clear…. I’ve got lots of frozen vials and starters explode with activity.

 

[Shenanigans]

Anyone here already tried Saturated from WHC Labs in Ireland in a bitter?
It's another dry version of LAIII that's supposed to be not as fruity as Verdant.
I brewed a Young's Special London Ale clone a few years ago with Verdant and I liked it but it was indeed very fruity. I haven't had the original so can't say if Verdant was too different than LAIII.

Anyway, I plan on rebrewing with Saturated sometime this Winter so will report back.

 

[CascadesBrewer]

Anyone here already tried Saturated from WHC Labs in Ireland in a bitter?

I have not, and I am curious about WHC Labs. I got the impression that there were only about 4 manufacturers of dry yeast for brewing (Fermentis, Lallemand, AEB and Angel...with the first 3 being European based and Angel from China). WHC Labs does appear to be making their own dry yeast, so it might be that they have unique strains of dry yeast. I am not aware of any vendors in the US that carry WHC Labs yeasts.

 

[Shenanigans]

I have not, and I am curious about WHC Labs. I got the impression that there were only about 4 manufacturers of dry yeast for brewing (Fermentis, Lallemand, AEB and Angel...with the first 3 being European based and Angel from China). WHC Labs does appear to be making their own dry yeast, so it might be that they have unique strains of dry yeast. I am not aware of any vendors in the US that carry WHC Labs yeasts.

They have a distributer in Oregon but looks like only for commercial use.
However, it can't hurt to contact them and ask.
Or you can order direct from their website only 5 euro plus 19.50 p&P

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I have not, and I am curious about WHC Labs.

Perhaps the product that typifies what they're about is a Whitbread yeast called Bond. Which has absolutely nothing to do with WLP007, clearly.

So being a bit careful what I say - they're maybe not the first company I would think of for innovation. But whatever they produce will usually have a cute name.

 

[Miraculix]

Perhaps the product that typifies what they're about is a Whitbread yeast called Bond. Which has absolutely nothing to do with WLP007, clearly.

So being a bit careful what I say - they're maybe not the first company I would think of for innovation. But whatever they produce will usually have a cute name.

So are they doing their own strains or not? I don't understand.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

So are they doing their own strains or not? I don't understand.

They produce liquid versions of their dried yeasts but I have no clue what the raw materials are to make a yeast from scratch.

 

[Miraculix]

Moved

 

[Cheshire Cat]

What’s a lager bitter? Also 10% dark crystal seams too much and use white sugar. Head retention use Torrefied wheat or wheat malt.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

So are they doing their own strains or not? I don't understand.

They came from nowhere and suddenly have a big range of liquid yeasts, that explicitly reference the likes of White Labs in their marketing. You figure it out...

 

[Miraculix]

What’s a lager bitter? Also 10% dark crystal seams too much and use white sugar. Head retention use Torrefied wheat or wheat malt.

I think the naming lager bitter (Which I made up) is pretty much self explanatory, isn't it?

Ten percent dark crystal is fine, it's balanced by 10% Demerara sugar (didn't say anything about white sugar!) and also the higher attenuation of the lager yeast.

 

[Miraculix]

I actually posted this in the wrong thread, I've just realised..... I moved it to the English ale thread.

 

[Shenanigans]

They came from nowhere and suddenly have a big range of liquid yeasts, that explicitly reference the likes of White Labs in their marketing. You figure it out...

I have no idea where they sourced the strains, maybe they just use the WL description as a reference point so consumers have some kind of an idea what type of yeast they are buying?
However, if they did indeed start by just propagating yeast from another company at least it's good to have access to a fresher version here in Europe but it looks like they have stopped producing home brew sized liquid yeast. As far as I can see only the dry versions are available in small packs now.

Another company producing liquid yeast in the EU is Fermentum Mobil in Poland.
Several British strains included but if you click on the detail they also compare them to WL & WY strains.

https://fermentum-mobile.pl/en/offer/yeast-strain-list/

BTW sorry to the OP for going a bit

Edit: After posting above I went to the homepage from Fermentum Mobile and it says they are joining forces with WHC
https://fermentum-mobile.pl/en/

They are available in 30ml homebrew sized vials in several shops across the EU & UK.