Is this the London Ale III dry yeast spotted?

[sykesey]

https://twitter.com/VerdantBrew/status/1253269951152099335?s=20

Looks like a new strain, and since Verdant i am sure heavily use LA III , I'd say this could be it.

I guess the Neipa dry yeast which was meant to be a Conan dry form didn't really set the world alight with its performance, so will be interesting to see how this goes.

 

[Steveruch]

I hope it is; I mostly use dry yeast and the more varieties on the market the better.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I'd say almost certainly - I was given a strong hint last year that a LA III equivalent would be next out of the Lallemand pipeline after Voss - you'd generally expect retail packs to appear a couple of months after brewery trials, but obviously you can't be too definite given the Covid situation (for instance I imagine most of Lallemand's retail packaging capacity is full-time on bread yeast at the moment given the shortages there).

I've not heard what comes next - my guess would be another kveik and maybe a "low alcohol" strain, but that's just speculation. They also seem quite keen to build up their non-Saccharomyces portfolio, presumably they had to set up dedicated facilities to produce Sour Pitch and they now want to fill that capacity. Dry Brett anybody?