nostalgia
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Mind boggling. I'm getting ready to buy my next three recipe kits from Austin Homebrew and have to decide on yeast. Being fairly new to brewing, I don't really know what to expect from different yeasts and am a little confused about my choices.
Here are the three kits I'm looking at getting and the yeast options Forrest suggests for each:
Honey Brown: WLP051/Wyeast American Ale 1272/Munton's Gold dry
Oaked Porter: WLP005/Wyeast London Ale 1028/Danstar Windsor dry
Ruddles clone: WLP013/Wyeast London Ale 1028/Danstar Nottingham dry
So...yeah. How does one decide? I like the simplicity and low cost of dry yeasts, but there seems to be such a wider variety of liquid I wonder if I'd be losing the proper "character" of the beer, especially the Ruddles clone. And I know I don't like Munton's in any shape or form.
And what about the WLP005/013 both being options to the Wyeast 1028? Are they that similar?
Thanks from a confused nooblet.
-Joe
Here are the three kits I'm looking at getting and the yeast options Forrest suggests for each:
Honey Brown: WLP051/Wyeast American Ale 1272/Munton's Gold dry
Oaked Porter: WLP005/Wyeast London Ale 1028/Danstar Windsor dry
Ruddles clone: WLP013/Wyeast London Ale 1028/Danstar Nottingham dry
So...yeah. How does one decide? I like the simplicity and low cost of dry yeasts, but there seems to be such a wider variety of liquid I wonder if I'd be losing the proper "character" of the beer, especially the Ruddles clone. And I know I don't like Munton's in any shape or form.
And what about the WLP005/013 both being options to the Wyeast 1028? Are they that similar?
Thanks from a confused nooblet.
-Joe