Wyeast 1332 Northwest

[BrewDonkey]

Hey thanks for asking! It actually turned out well! No off flavors. While I will say that despite its popularity on NB website, its not my favorite, but I think it held true to the intended style. Good luck with the rest of your brew!!

BTW - I highly suggest giving NB's German Alt kit a shot. Drinking it now and its like a beautiful dunkel backbone but with just a touch of hop presence (predominantly in the form of bitterness) and its an Ale vs a Lager

Its been a hit thus far

 

[Upthewazzu]

This yeast is extremely explosive. I've blown the fermentor lid 3 times now with this strain, even when holding temps in the low to mid 60's. I just expect it now, even with a blow off tube it's blown the lid (tube got plugged). It seems to produce a very flavorful IPA/APA. I have a house IPA that I use 1056 but will change it to 1332 next time I brew it up to see what difference it makes.

 

[ESBrewer]

Do you think this is the original strain of Gales brewery? Would you expect to find the same yeast from Fuller's (former Gales) HSB bottles? I have read that many British bottle conditioned ales are conditioned with the same strain that is used in primary fermentation.

 

[Upthewazzu]

Do you think this is the original strain of Gale's brewery? Would you expect to find the same yeast from Fuller's (former Gale's) HSB bottles? I have read that many British bottle conditioned ales are conditioned with the same strain that is used in primary fermentation.

According to the Wyeast description, it's the house yeast at a big brewery in the Pac NW. Who know's what it's lineage is.

As an aside, anyone know if this might work well for a NE IPA? 1318 has a weird/funky (bandaid/rubber?) flavor that I don't enjoy and can pick out immediately no matter what temp I ferment it at.

 

[ESBrewer]

Yes, I have read that NW brewery got it from Gales Brewery? In fact I'm just learning how to grow yeast from the bottles and this would be a nice strain to experiment with cause I'm interested in brewing bitters and Gales used to brew some good ones. Maybe this strain (or equivalent) can be found from the bottle conditioned Gales HSB that Fuller's is brewing now.

 

[Upthewazzu]

Yes, I have read that NW brewery got it from Gale's Brewery? In fact I'm just learning how to grow yeast from the bottles and this would be a nice strain to experiment with cause I'm interested in brewing bitters and Gale's used to brew some good ones. Maybe this strain (or equivalent) can be found from the bottle conditioned Gale's HSB that Fuller's is brewing now.

This source seems to agree with you.

 

[bwible]

I’m done all my brewing for this year but I want to make a point to try this yeast next year. Been brewing 20+ years and I never used it or if I ever did I never wrote it down. Wyeast says its good for the whole American Ale family - blonde ale, pale ale, IPA, double IPA, Amber ale, Brown ale, porter, stout, barleywine.
Interesting that its origin does appear to be English. I think I want to try this in the Stone clone:
https://www.stonebrewing.com/blog/miscellany/2015/stone-pale-ale#ageGatePassed