Strong esters with US-05. WTF?

[bernerbrau]

I popped my US-05/1056 experiment beer earlier this week.

The 1056 batch has almost no flavor at all. Tastes like seltzer. I'll send this one off to in-laws who like flavorless beer.

The US-05 batch has exactly the same defect as my six grain cream ale - the peachy/apply esters.

Not only that, I discovered that an extremely low-gravity beer (1.030) will carbonate much faster than a higher gravity (1.050-1.070) beer. This sucker finished off after 14 days in the bottle.

Since they're theoretically the same strain, I want to guess that pitching rates are the issue?

 

[jmo88]

Since they're theoretically the same strain, I want to guess that pitching rates are the issue?

I think it's more related to the effects of the drying process. I would assume it's an inherent aspect of US-05. If you under/over pitched 1056, I doubt you would find any peach.

 

[Brewkowski]

Just tapped a batch of wheat beer that I made with US-05 and I"m not sure if it's just the yeast or the combination of the hops, but it tastes like a pina colada. Basic wheat beer recipe with 1 oz Amarillo, 1oz Sorachi Ace and .25oz or so Sweet Orange Peel. It's not bad, but never expected that kind of character out of it, wish I had the patience to keep it till summer weather.
On the other hand I did a brown ale with Cluster and Warrior and US-05 and I didn't detect any fruit tones on that one, both were fermented high 60's/low70's.

 

[bernerbrau]

I think it's more related to the effects of the drying process. I would assume it's an inherent aspect of US-05. If you under/over pitched 1056, I doubt you would find any peach.

In that case, I'm probably gonna re-brew my 6-grain cream ale with 1056.

 

[mrpeccator]

Yeah, thread resurrection here but I want to share my experience with us-05. The temps of the wort (fermometer) got down to 58 during a pale ale in December. My temp control is single stage cooling as heating is almost never needed here. Oops. This beer is currently an ester fest and I would swear that it has strawberries in it somewhere. It is currently kegged, carbonated, and taking a long nap before I touch it again. But I learned to brew lagers in the winter and will be using wlp001 instead the rest of the year. (The cost difference is negligible at LHBS) If you use 05 don't let it get cold either!