Yeast Strain(s) For Maple And Dandelion Beers?

[WuWeiBrewing]

I recently got my hands on a book by Stephen Harrod Buhner called "Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers." There are a bunch of old recipes in it, and I am thinking of trying a few. In particular, a variation of one of the Maple Beers and Dandelion Beers.

I was wondering if anyone knows what type of yeast I should use in these recipes (the ingredients in the book do not specify)?

The Maple Beer is literally just maple syrup, water, and yeast.

The Dandelion Beer consists of dandelion herb, nettle herb, yellow dock root, powdered ginger, sugar, water, and yeast (it actually states to use 1/2 oz. "solid yeast").

I have no idea which strains would be best, though.

Also, the recipe for the Maple Beer states to prime each bottle before siphoning. However, I usually boil water and sugar together first, then add it to my bottling bucket (instead of priming each bottle). The beer recipe is 3lbs syrup to 1 gallon of water. I'd prefer to prime with maple syrup as well, to keep it more "pure," so to speak. Does anyone have an idea of how much water/syrup I should boil together and add to my bottling bucket, so I can prime like that instead?

Any insight is deeply appreciated - thanks!

 

[desertbronze]

Does it really matter? Are you looking for any flavor from the yeast? I would guess not from your post. Just use a neutral yeast like 1056 or 001 or US-05.

 

[squeekysheep]

i would use us-05 then after you try that you can figure out for next time if you would like to add other yeast. using a plain typee yeast will allow you to see how the recipe will turn out and reduce teh chance that the yeast will not work with it.

 

[WuWeiBrewing]

Thank you both for getting back to me! I'll go ahead and try out the US-05 and see how that goes.

Any thoughts on the priming, though?

 

[passedpawn]

Thank you both for getting back to me! I'll go ahead and try out the US-05 and see how that goes.

Any thoughts on the priming, though?

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[WuWeiBrewing]

Ahh, thanks a bunch!