Imperial Stout with lager yeast?

[Mk010101]

Baltic Porters are made with lager yeasts and the one I did years ago came out great and smooth. Since Imperial Stouts need so much time to "clean up," has anyone ever tried to use lager yeast, fermenting near 50 instead of an ale yeast? Would be very interested if anyone tried this and had any notes of comparison to ale yeasts.

I am thinking of making an imperial stout for next winter's consumption and splitting the batch between an ale yeast and lager yeast to see if there are any differences.

 

[BradleyBrew]

That sounds like a nice experiment. I'm about to make my first Baltic Porter Thursday using Wyeast Hella Bock Strain.

 

[BroomVikin]

Old thread I know but I'm the proud new owner of a chest freezer and now have the ability to lager. I was wondering this exact thing, could I "lager" a stout? Seems that it would be a great experiment to try. How did this turn out?

 

[user 214470]

I'm from a Baltic country myself, and one local brewery makes "Baltic Stout" here, using lager yeast. I've tasted it once - nice stout, didn't notice anything unusual though... I don't see why it wouldn't work.
If memory serves me well, I've read somewhere, that many licensed "Guinness" breweries use lager yeast for stout.

 

[jjeffers09]

that's what I was about to say... Baltic Stout. It is not as good as the ale version IMO