help with yeast selection

[rainxdog]

I'm going to be brewing a black butte porter clone in the next couple days and would like some advice on yeast selection. The site recommends these two


Liquid: WLP004 Irish Ale Yeast

Dry: Safale S-04

Or if any others that you have used in the past that worked better.

 

[JLem]

The Brewing Network "Can You Brew It" show has the "official" clone recipe (they basically got all the info from the brewer). Their recommended yeast is WLP002.

Their recipe can be found here - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/can-you-brew-recipe-deschutes-black-butte-porter-176186/

the podcast for that particular episode can be found here - http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/545

 

[RichBenn]

I'm going to be brewing a black butte porter clone in the next couple days and would like some advice on yeast selection. The site recommends these two


Liquid: WLP004 Irish Ale Yeast

Dry: Safale S-04

Or if any others that you have used in the past that worked better.

recipes I've seen use WLP002, which is like neither of the above. S-04 is reportedly the Whitbread strain, which, I think, is WLP007.

Someone else can chime in, but supposedly Deschutes uses a house strain that's similar to another yeast (just can't remember which that was). But none of these are the ones you mention.

 

[HomebrewMTB]

That is a great beer! I wish they distributed further East. Anyway, I've read Deschutes uses the Fuller's strain, WLP002/WY1968. It's a bit lower attenuating than the other two strains you mentioned, although those will make good beer too!

 

[rainxdog]

Thanks I think I'm going to go with the wlp002