top 10 or (5) most used yeast

[parratt1]

Ok so if you were going to stock a homebrew shop and you were only going to carry 10 strains for your initial month, what would they be? Can you narrow it to 10 or do you need 15?

 

[JoeBronco]

1) US-04
2) US-05
3) Nottingham
4) 1056
5) 1388 (Belgian Strong Ale)
6) 2035 (american Lager)
7) 2206 (Bavarian Lager)
8) 3056 (Bavarian Wheat)
9) 3333 (German Wheat)
10) 2565 (Kolsch)

The first 4 are IMO the most used.

 

[a10t2]

I think you can easily stick with 10:

1056/001
1968/002
1272/051
1098/007
1084/004
2124/830
2206/820
3068/300
3787/530
3944/400

That should cover damn near everything. If you also wanted to stock bugs, you'd have to go to 15.

 

[Golddiggie]

Talking about just beer strains? 15 would be better, for beer yeasts...
Wyeast:
1056
1084
1728
1335
1332
1450
1275
1968
Two each of the Belgian Ale strains and two lager strains..

For other yeast
Lalvin:
D47
EC-1118
71B-1122
RC 212
ICV K1V-1116

Also, I think limiting yourself to just 10 or 15 strains for any length of time wouldn't be good. Even if you only had a couple of the strains initially, to see what moves better. Also be prepared to special order yeast (post that you are willing/able to do that for people) and have it available within a week. I'm sure there are people that prefer White Labs as well as dry yeast over others. To not stock at least some of the strains would be a negative, IMO.

Anyway, if I was limited in what I could stock, the above is what I would stock... Luckily, the LHBS I get my yeast from isn't so limited. They have a lot of yeast strains on hand to pick from. If they don't have something I want, they can get it pretty fast. I typically go in at least the weekend before I need the yeast, in case they do need to order it up for me. Since they place their order on either Sunday or Monday, with it arriving that Thursday, it works out well.

 

[JoeBronco]

Better to have a few Drys in the mix and not all from one supplier (ie: Wyeast, Safale, ect..) My first three choices would be dry all around yeasts so that you dont alienate certain types of brewers. I tend to find most novice brewers using Dry neutral yeasts (thus my reasoning's for the 04,05 and Notty)

The rest shouldn't be what you use personally but what is more popular.


I would stick with this if only 10. You have a bit more leeway with 15:

4 Ales
3 Lagers
3 Wheat's
(at least 2 dry yeasts and two suppliers)

 

[parratt1]

Thanks guys. I am going to try to swing at least 10 liquids from both wyeast and also white labs and then the go to danstars and safeale/lagers. I will add more as I go each month but holy cow it takes a lot of cash to get a store up and running!!!

 

[JoeBronco]

That sounds like a good idea. Make sure you have a TON of 2row and 1056 at all times!