wyeast 1098 yeast cake

[cobolstinks]

I just racked my Surly Coffee Bender clone off its yeast cake. I collected around a half gallon of yeast sulry. I've never used 1098 before. Is this yeast cake going to work well to ferment a RIS like the one here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/stoneface-russian-imperial-stout-26710/

or would you stick to wyeast 1056??

Thanks,
Chris

 

[OLDBREW]

if you wash it.. it will be fine
1098 brittish ale is a little more fruitier then 1056 but keeping the temp down on fermentation 64* will keep most of those esters out

 

[cobolstinks]

I don't think I need to wash the cake because I used a hop bag and got virtually no hop junk in the yeast. The surly is a milky mud brown color with very few specks of black.

I love how easy it was to collect this yeast because of the hop bag.

 

[OLDBREW]

coffee grinds

 

[cobolstinks]

i added the coffee to the secondary. There was no coffee present in the primary.

 

[OLDBREW]

go for it