Which yeast to use?

[SLCPete]

I would like to try and brew a clone of St Austell brewery’s Tribute.
The brewery uses their own yeast strain but would anyone know of a good substitute?
It should be a high flocculation ale yeast.
To be used with Willamette to bring out some subtle orange aromas.
Any advice gratefully received.

 

[user 246304]

I would like to try and brew a clone of St Austell brewery’s Tribute.
The brewery uses their own yeast strain but would anyone know of a good substitute?
It should be a high flocculation ale yeast.
To be used with Willamette to bring out some subtle orange aromas.
Any advice gratefully received.

Can't offer yeast-specific suggestions, but for what it's worth, @Northern_Brewer is a goldmine of knowledge here. This thread, actually, is from the horse's mouth - brew log from St. Austell's.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I would like to try and brew a clone of St Austell brewery’s Tribute.

Just as a general suggestion when it comes to cloning specific British beers, you're much better off over on the HBT sister site, www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk where there's been several threads about Tribute such as this one :

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/st-austell-tribute-clone-water-profile.104464/

It helps that Rakey from the Malt Miller is absolutely obsessed with it, so the Tribute clone kit they sell is the result of extensive consultation with the brewery :
https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/tribute-cornish-pale-ale/

They even sell Cornish Gold, the Munich-ish that's made specially for St Austell by Simpson's, using Cornish-grown Maris Otter.

The brewery uses their own yeast strain but would anyone know of a good substitute?
It should be a high flocculation ale yeast.

You can harvest the production yeast from bottles of Proper Job if you can find them; alternatively use Brewlabs Kent yeast as St Austell got their yeast from Shepherd Neame (for a long time one of the Neames was on the board of St Austell). Who in turn allegedly got their yeast from their neighbouring Whitbread brewery, so any Whitbread type like WLP007 should do.