safeale 05 for a blue moon clone

[codym]

I ordered a Blue Moon clone from AHS recently and am about to add washed safeale US-05 that I used on my sunset wheat clone. However, I started to read a lot about how much yeast can affect the flavor of the beer. Initially I assumed the effect would be very minor unless you used a yeast from a completely different catagory. My question is should I get a hold of some WL400 before brewing this beer or will safeale 05 give me a fairly similar beer?

 

[beernutz]

I ordered a Blue Moon clone from AHS recently and am about to add washed safeale US-05 that I used on my sunset wheat clone. However, I started to read a lot about how much yeast can affect the flavor of the beer. Initially I assumed the effect would be very minor unless you used a yeast from a completely different catagory. My question is should I get a hold of some WL400 before brewing this beer or will safeale 05 give me a fairly similar beer?

I believe Blue Moon Belgian White is brewed with an American Ale yeast like WLP 056, California Ale, rather than a Belgian Wit yeast. WLP 056 is what I used in the two previous BM clone batches I've done and they both tasted like very close clones of the original.

You might be interested in reading this thread on how BM was developed which includes posts from Wayne1 who was there at the time:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/blue-moon-clone-65328/

 

[midfielder5]

Unless it has changed-- The all grain AHS "clone" is not the recipe that Wayne1 said was Blue Moon in the seminal thread listed in post #2 here.

Different hops, yeast, grain and mash process. It may well make a great beer but it is not BM-- probably tastes better!
just a heads up, if that sort of thing matters.

 

[codym]

Thanks for the link that was a great read. Looks like I have the yeast part right. Time to learn how to do all grain so I can try that recipe!