Which Yeast Strain?

[Redtab78]

I am trying to develop my own "original" recipe and was curious as to how you guys choose or select yeast strain to use with each recipie? Is there a general rule of thumb for this, or do many of you just choose 1 and try it and repeat with different ones until you find the one that you like the best?

The grain bill for what I am making is:
9# pale 2 row
2.5# wyermann Vienna
.5# white wheat
.5# carapils

I will be using NZ Pacifica hops as both bittering and aroma, and I am shooting for a golden ale/American wheat style beer....so I am starting with Wyeast 1056 for the first batch, and I want to stick to the exact same grain bill and hops schedule each time, but I am not sure what other yeast strains I should play with to get the exact flavor profile.

 

[Clearbeer1]

Try looking at this list to see what strains go with your style of beer. You can experiment from there.

http://byo.com/resources/yeast



Good Luck

 

[kh54s10]

I really like 1056 for American Pale ales. If you were to go with more wheat you might try WY1010

I look for a certain flavor profile that I am trying to get then select grains, hops and yeast to try to achieve it. I don't always get the taste I was looking for, sometimes it is even better. All but one have been pretty good.

If I am using a recipe/clone I will usually use the yeast called for. I am still exploring different styles, different ingredients and varying processes so I have not done much same grain/hop bill with different yeasts. Really there are only a few that I have repeated in the 5 years I have been brewing.

 

[Indian_villager]

Hmm 1056 wil net a solid beer. But if you want a bit more character I'd look at wyeast American Ale II or the white labs american ale V.

Honestly the yeast selection process could be as simple as defining the style of beer you are trying to crank out and then looking at the strains normally suited for that style. Following this example you specified american wheat WY1056/wlp001 would work, if you look through white labs style charts (on the individual yeast page) you would find that 001 is listed as very well suited for an american wheat, if you look at WLP051(american ale v) you'd see that this strain is also listed as very well suited. Narrow down the best suited and then read the descriptions about the yeast and reach for the one that best appeals to your palate.