Yeast for Espresso Milk Stout

[Zekk]

So I want to brew a clone of the Sierra Nevada/ Ninkasi Double Latte Milk Stout from the Beer Camp variety pack. I have a recipe I found online, but wasn't' sure if my LHBS carries the yeast it recommends. I have WLP 004, the recipe recommends Wyeast 1056 (Chico Strain). I was wondering if there was another White Labs yeast that is comparable, or if I could just used the 004. Any suggestions would be amazing, usually I just blindly follow the kit instructions. Heres the recipe I'll be following:

Specs OG: 20.4 (Plato) = ~1.084
FG: 6.8 (Plato) = ~1.027 A
BV: 7.6%
IBUs: 60
Ingredients
12.5 lbs. two-row pale malt
1.5 lbs. chocolate malt
1 lb. crystal 80L malt
.5 lb. special roast malt
2 oz. black malt
1 lb. lactose sugar (late addition)
1.25 oz. Nugget hops at :60
.25 oz. Nugget hops at :15
Wyeast 1056: American Ale Yeast (also known as the Chico strain)
Half gallon of cold brewed coffee (added during secondary fermentation)

Might dry hop with espresso beans instead, and maybe up the nugget hops so I don't have .25 oz sitting in my freezer.

 

[brdb]

I have WLP 004, the recipe recommends Wyeast 1056 (Chico Strain). I was wondering if there was another White Labs yeast that is comparable, or if I could just used the 004.

Use WLP001 or Safale US-05 if you want the same strain as Wyeast 1056.

 

[winvarin]

If you already have the 004, I say use it. It ferments pretty neutral, especially if you can keep it in the mid 60s.

Not as clean as 001/1056, but much cleaner than a lot of the Brit Isles strains.


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[brewery_fixer]

What I'm having a hard time with is how this beer is supposed to finish at 1.027 with a mash temp of 154. I plugged these numbers into the Brewers Friend recipe creator and it has the beer finishing at 1.020, much lower. What am I missing here?

 

[brewery_fixer]

Nevermind, I figured it out. The 7 points from the lactose get added to the final gravity since it is unfermentable.


Should be doing something else

 

[Natdavis777]

I like using 1098 opposed to 1056 in my stout/porter recipes.