Favorite yeast

[beersk]

I'm an aspiring dry yeast user as well but there are some strains that just aren't available in dry form. For example, Wy1084 or any Irish ale yeast. It's a major bummer and I don't get it. But other than that, I like US-05, Nottingham, 34/70, S-189. The Mangrove Jacks Bavarian Wheat yeast is very nice tasting, but doesn't attenuate very well. I was doing kveiks for a while, but I think I'm done with those now. They make nice and interesting beers without temp control, just not what I'm after.

 

[D.B.Moody]

I'll use S33, but I don't like Nottingham. It is to attenuative and neutral for English styles.

Since I seem to to be on the sam page on this, do you have thoughts about Munton's? Also, is part of you preference for S04 its flocculatio?

 

[Franktalk]

Yes, S04 flocs great. I only tried Munton's once, and I didn't like it. I got a bit of acetylhyde (green apple) from it, which I am very sensitive to and do not like at all. It could have been a fluke, but there are many choices out there, so why take another chance. I may be wrong, but I think Munton's is the same as S33 (Edme strain), but I've never had a problem with S33

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

I'd have to write Wyeast 1056 or US-05. However, Wyeast 1968 is very good too

 

[D.B.Moody]

there are many choices out there, so why take another chance. I may be wrong, but I think Munton's is the same as S33 (Edme strain), but I've never had a problem with S33

I heard the same about Muntons and S33. My last supply order was S33 only. And I agree about the why take a chance thing. I did a group of yeast test batches back on 1997 where I ranked S04 lower than Muntons. I just used S04 again last year and liked it better than a similar Nottingham brew, and it back on my list. I don't do any lagers, but I do non-British ales where I find Nottingham useful. I use S05 for my American summer ale. Thanks for your answers.

My favorite yeasts in alphabetical order: Muntons, Nottingham, S04, S05, S33.

 

[EthanH]

I mostly make IPAs and pale ales and I started using WLP007 a while back for reasons unknown (I think it was suggested in the recipe I was making). I've used WLP090 with pretty good success and don't mind Nottingham either (I try to always have it on hand as a backup).

WLP007 is also good in porters/stouts I find, which is about 10% of the beers I make.

Currently have fresh packs of WLP007, S05 (Yakima Hops threw it into a hops order), Nottingham, and Omega Hothead (because I thought I'd give it a try and my basement is like 78º in the winter).

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Back in the 1990s I used Edme all the time. What happened to Edme?

 

[Mutant]

WLP022 Essex for lower SRM British Strong Ales.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Back in the 1990s I used Edme all the time. What happened to Edme?

Edme became S33, and it was at first identified as such. It is no longer marketed that way for reasons that are beyond my pay grade. I still use it often. My last supply order for six brews, included six packets of Edme.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

S33? Safale? I really liked and counted on Edme Ale yeast and then they disappeared. I thought I read their yeast got infected. Is this valid? IDK.

 

[D.B.Moody]

S33? Safale? I really liked and counted on Edme Ale yeast and then they disappeared. I thought I read their yeast got infected. Is this valid? IDK.

I don't know anything about an infection. Edme got bought. First the malt disappeared, then the yeast. The yeast reappeared as Safale S33. Here's quote from an old (before liquid yeast became the thing) MidwestSupplies catalog: "Safbrew S-33 (10 grams) A general purpose, widely used yeast with low attenuation properties. This strain is extremely consistent, with excellent wort attenuation and a superb flavor profile. Edme Strain . . .$2.00" S-33 is some how now marketed as a Belgian ale yeast for instance at Morebeer. As I said, above my pay grade.

You might enjoy a look at the thread "Dry Teast Identified - your opinion please " @frankkvw.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Interesting. Thanks!

 

[bracconiere]

I really liked and counted on Edme Ale yeast and then they disappeared.

never heard of "edme yeast"...but got a laugh because, it reminds me of the looney toons and "Acme"

edit: sorry if that's off-topic, but had to share

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Nope, not the Road Runner "Acme", Edme was a kick-a*s dried yeast in the 1990s. 11.5 g packs.

 

[yowzers]

Nottingham and 34/70. Use these almost exclusively now after I went on a few years of liquid yeast because that's what was popular. Found that I love the clean Fermentation from both of these and don't really like fruity or estery beers. I've made American light lagers to Double IPA's with these two.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

never heard of "edme yeast"...but got a laugh because, it reminds me of the looney toons and "Acme"

It should be capitalised, the name is an abbreviation of The English Diastatic Malt Extract Company and is still in business and processing grain, but more on the food side now.

https://www.edme.com/about/history/
Windsor, S-33 and Muntons ordinary yeast are all closely related and seem to derive from the EDME yeast, which was one of the main ones available to British homebrewers in the 1980s.

 

[catdaddy66]

Nottingham is a favorite of mine... So dependable and predictable