This is a report on RVA Yeast labs Manchester ale yeast.
This is mostly for folks in or near Virginia, sorry if that excludes you, but this also may be of interest to everyone that is interested in the many variants of the apparently incorrectly-labeled Boddington yeast strains all major labs put out. Note that I don't brew nearly as much of many of you, but my prior experience with this group of related yeast strains is exclusively Wyeast 1318 LA3.
Beer stats:
OG: 1.057
FG: 1.012
ABV: 5.9%
SRM: 4.4
87% Golden Promise (Simpsons)
8.7& Dextrose
4.3% Flaked Barley
0.5 oz Magnum @ 60'
2.0 oz Mosaic T90 pellets @ 5'
2.0 oz Mosaic T90 pellets @ WP/175F
4.0 oz Mosaic Lupomax @ day 14, post-fermentation
RVA 132 Manchester Ale. Over-built starter, targeted 0.7 million cells/ml/P according to the Brewer's friend calculator. Pitched at 68F, raised to 70F on day 6.
I use a Fermzilla. On day 11 of fermentation I soft crashed to 60 for 4 days, then transferred to fermentation CO2 purged keg w/ 4oz of Lupomax hops that were placed in the keg on brew day. I left the keg in the ferm chamber at 60F for (looks at notes) 3 days.
Holy crap, this has been in the kegerator since 2/10/21 (forced carb @ ~ 10psi). I don't think the flavor or aroma has budged yet, nor has the haze appearance. The hops are inside a little filter inside the keg. BTW, I like my NEIPAs on the soft, but somewhat dry end of things and I prefer under 7% abv.
This is the first time I have used Lupomax hops. I purposely shot low on the dry hopping rate hoping I could pick out the yeast ester contributions. Turns out that
Scott Janish's post on RVA Manchester vs. Wyeast 1318 is dead on in my opinion. Consistent with my experience with half a dozen beers from The Veil, I get a distinct vanilla, marmalade, or not quite ripe pineapple (possibly lemon/lime or limeade) impressions. Even though I struggle to name the ester profile, it is very distinct and very different from 1318. Though it would seem to give similar soft, juicy qualities as does 1318. Honestly, I don't love it for a single hopped Mosaic beer or at least one at this hopping rate.
K, think I wrote too much. I'm happy to provide more to anyone that is interested.
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