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This list of bottled conditoned beer is from another forum. Some of the beers may have changed and the brewery may have changed from bottle conditioning to filtering as the list is from 2012. So check the bottle for the phrase 'bottle conditioned' before buying (although it may not always state the beer is bottle conditioned even if it is)
Adnams (mini-kegs contain the primary dual-strain, but bottles do not)
Adnams Tally Ho
Brugse Zot - Sold in M&S
Butts Brewery - Barbus Barbus
Cantillon (classic source for diverse lambic cultures)
Cheddar Ales - All of their bottled beers appear to be bottle conditioned
Chimay
Coniston Bluebird Bitter
Coopers
Courage (some)
Crouch Vale - Aquired from the defunct Ridley Brewery (WLP022 Essex Ale yeast is supposed to be this strain)
D'Achouffe
DeDolle (excellent Belgian multi-strain)
DuPont (classic saison culture, but reportedly a triple-strain, results vary)
Duvel (probably contains primary strain, some dispute)
Fullers Bengal Lancer and 1845 (extremely popular)
Greene King - Heritage Series Ales (Suffolk Pale Ale and Vintage Fine Ale) contain original GK strain. Available from selected Tesco's
All Hobson's - Old Prickly, Town Crier, Hobson's Manor, Shropshire Stout, Postman's knock, Old Henry.The yeast, a classic top-fermenting ale strain, was originally sourced from Midlands family brewer Holdens
Hacker Pschorr (Munich Kellerbier)
Harpoon UFO white - wheat beer. Can be bought in ASDA
Harvey's Imperial Extra Double Stout
Hook Norton (some Flagship IPA and Double Stout bottles are believed to contain primary strain)
Hopback Summer Lightning (may now not be bottle conditioned. No longer states so on Hopback website)
Hopback Crop Circle
Itchen Valley Godfathers
Kindl Weiss (good Berliner Weiss lacto blend)
Lizard Ales
Marble?
Maredsous (yes-primary, but same as Duvel)
Marstons (some: Oyster Stout or Tesco's IPA?)Pedigree
Morland Hen's Tooth
M&S Cornish Ale - St Austell Brewery
M&S Cornish IPA - St Austell Brewery
M&S Lancashire Dark Mild - Thwaites
M&S Norfolk Bitter - Woodforde's
M&S Yorkshire Best Bitter - Hambleton
Norg O (available at tesco)
Old Luxters Barn Ale and IPA
Ommegang
Orval (excellent blend of Belgian primary strain + brett)
Ridgeway Bad Elf, Lump of Coal, probably others (brewed by Hepworth, same primary dual strain used in bottles)
Rochefort
Samuel Smith Stingo
Savour British Saison - Buy from Waitrose
Schneider Weiss (supposedly the only hefeweizen bottled with primary strain)
Sharps (some, perhaps the only way to obtain historic Morrells strain. Sharp's 6 vintage blend available at whole foods market http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list/uk)
Shepherd Neame 1698
Sierra Nevada (may not be primary strain)
St. Austell Proper Job and Black Job - Very clean. Favourable to hop orientated pales and IPA's
Tesco's "Finest Belgian Abbey Ale" by the Huyghe Brewery
Thomas Hardy (some)
Thwaites (some)
Unibroue (a Belgian-style brewery in Canada, very spicy, a mutation of Chimay?)
Union Summer Wheat - Possibly Safale WB06
Wibblers - Most of their beers seem to be bottle conditioned. They got this from Crouch Vale brewery who got it from the now defunct Ridleys brewery. WLP022 Essex ale is supposed to be this strain. One of the historic whitbread strains (B i think). You can also buy brewery yeast from their online shop for
Westmalle
Westvleteren
Widmer Hefeweizen (not a true Hefeweizen strain, Americanized version of historic Zum Uerige alt strain)
Wiper and True. All bottled beers appear to be bottle conditioned
Worthington White Shield (probably not primary strain, but a nice high-attenuating strain anyway)
Wye Valley (filtered but then bottle-conditioned with fresh, primary, single-strain)
Youngs Special London Ale
Sour Beers - The mad fermentationist maintains a list of bottle conditioned sour beers here: https://www.themadfermentationist.com/p/dreg-list.html?m=1 but PLEASE NOTE This is an American list so many of the beers will not be available (at least easily) here in the UK
A couple more ideas for fresh yeast:
Many local microbreweries have imperfect filtration, and likely skip reseeding with a secondary yeast, so it's always worth a try.
Just because a beer doesn't specifically state "bottle-conditioned" doesn't automatically rule it out. If you hold it up to the light and see a layer of white at the bottom, that's yeast.
CAMRA produce a 'Good bottled beer Guide' all the beers in this Guide are bottle conditioned
http://www.camra.org.uk/good-bottled-beer-guide
Howver if you go onto amazon books and go onto the guide, above the picture of the front cover their is a 'look inside' tab. Click on this and you can have a look at a few select pages. This includes the index which lists all the beers in the book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1852493097/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
If you mooch around on ebay and look for 'vintage ales' you can often get you hands on bottle conditioned beers. Some of these vintage ales have strains in them from now defunct breweries or breweries that used to bottle condition beers but no longer do so (e.g. guinness). Despite some of these vintage ales being decades old they still have viable yeast in them that can be cultured up. The bottles often wont have 'bottle conditioned' on them so it's a bit of a gamble if you buy one but you can get you're hands on some classic strains this way
Thanks to @foxbat for list on continental lager, hefe, etc
https://hobbybrauer.de/forum/wiki/doku.php/hefestripping
"It's in German but it's easy to read. The first list, Untergärig, means bottom-fermenting (real lager yeasts). The second list, Obergärig, means top-fermenting and these will be the ale yeasts. The final list, Ungeeignete, are the unsuitable beers. Presumably these bottles do not contain the primary strain."
Adnams (mini-kegs contain the primary dual-strain, but bottles do not)
Adnams Tally Ho
Brugse Zot - Sold in M&S
Butts Brewery - Barbus Barbus
Cantillon (classic source for diverse lambic cultures)
Cheddar Ales - All of their bottled beers appear to be bottle conditioned
Chimay
Coniston Bluebird Bitter
Coopers
Courage (some)
Crouch Vale - Aquired from the defunct Ridley Brewery (WLP022 Essex Ale yeast is supposed to be this strain)
D'Achouffe
DeDolle (excellent Belgian multi-strain)
DuPont (classic saison culture, but reportedly a triple-strain, results vary)
Duvel (probably contains primary strain, some dispute)
Fullers Bengal Lancer and 1845 (extremely popular)
Greene King - Heritage Series Ales (Suffolk Pale Ale and Vintage Fine Ale) contain original GK strain. Available from selected Tesco's
All Hobson's - Old Prickly, Town Crier, Hobson's Manor, Shropshire Stout, Postman's knock, Old Henry.The yeast, a classic top-fermenting ale strain, was originally sourced from Midlands family brewer Holdens
Hacker Pschorr (Munich Kellerbier)
Harpoon UFO white - wheat beer. Can be bought in ASDA
Harvey's Imperial Extra Double Stout
Hook Norton (some Flagship IPA and Double Stout bottles are believed to contain primary strain)
Hopback Summer Lightning (may now not be bottle conditioned. No longer states so on Hopback website)
Hopback Crop Circle
Itchen Valley Godfathers
Kindl Weiss (good Berliner Weiss lacto blend)
Lizard Ales
Marble?
Maredsous (yes-primary, but same as Duvel)
Marstons (some: Oyster Stout or Tesco's IPA?)Pedigree
Morland Hen's Tooth
M&S Cornish Ale - St Austell Brewery
M&S Cornish IPA - St Austell Brewery
M&S Lancashire Dark Mild - Thwaites
M&S Norfolk Bitter - Woodforde's
M&S Yorkshire Best Bitter - Hambleton
Norg O (available at tesco)
Old Luxters Barn Ale and IPA
Ommegang
Orval (excellent blend of Belgian primary strain + brett)
Ridgeway Bad Elf, Lump of Coal, probably others (brewed by Hepworth, same primary dual strain used in bottles)
Rochefort
Samuel Smith Stingo
Savour British Saison - Buy from Waitrose
Schneider Weiss (supposedly the only hefeweizen bottled with primary strain)
Sharps (some, perhaps the only way to obtain historic Morrells strain. Sharp's 6 vintage blend available at whole foods market http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list/uk)
Shepherd Neame 1698
Sierra Nevada (may not be primary strain)
St. Austell Proper Job and Black Job - Very clean. Favourable to hop orientated pales and IPA's
Tesco's "Finest Belgian Abbey Ale" by the Huyghe Brewery
Thomas Hardy (some)
Thwaites (some)
Unibroue (a Belgian-style brewery in Canada, very spicy, a mutation of Chimay?)
Union Summer Wheat - Possibly Safale WB06
Wibblers - Most of their beers seem to be bottle conditioned. They got this from Crouch Vale brewery who got it from the now defunct Ridleys brewery. WLP022 Essex ale is supposed to be this strain. One of the historic whitbread strains (B i think). You can also buy brewery yeast from their online shop for
Westmalle
Westvleteren
Widmer Hefeweizen (not a true Hefeweizen strain, Americanized version of historic Zum Uerige alt strain)
Wiper and True. All bottled beers appear to be bottle conditioned
Worthington White Shield (probably not primary strain, but a nice high-attenuating strain anyway)
Wye Valley (filtered but then bottle-conditioned with fresh, primary, single-strain)
Youngs Special London Ale
Sour Beers - The mad fermentationist maintains a list of bottle conditioned sour beers here: https://www.themadfermentationist.com/p/dreg-list.html?m=1 but PLEASE NOTE This is an American list so many of the beers will not be available (at least easily) here in the UK
A couple more ideas for fresh yeast:
Many local microbreweries have imperfect filtration, and likely skip reseeding with a secondary yeast, so it's always worth a try.
Just because a beer doesn't specifically state "bottle-conditioned" doesn't automatically rule it out. If you hold it up to the light and see a layer of white at the bottom, that's yeast.
CAMRA produce a 'Good bottled beer Guide' all the beers in this Guide are bottle conditioned
http://www.camra.org.uk/good-bottled-beer-guide
Howver if you go onto amazon books and go onto the guide, above the picture of the front cover their is a 'look inside' tab. Click on this and you can have a look at a few select pages. This includes the index which lists all the beers in the book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1852493097/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
If you mooch around on ebay and look for 'vintage ales' you can often get you hands on bottle conditioned beers. Some of these vintage ales have strains in them from now defunct breweries or breweries that used to bottle condition beers but no longer do so (e.g. guinness). Despite some of these vintage ales being decades old they still have viable yeast in them that can be cultured up. The bottles often wont have 'bottle conditioned' on them so it's a bit of a gamble if you buy one but you can get you're hands on some classic strains this way
Thanks to @foxbat for list on continental lager, hefe, etc
https://hobbybrauer.de/forum/wiki/doku.php/hefestripping
"It's in German but it's easy to read. The first list, Untergärig, means bottom-fermenting (real lager yeasts). The second list, Obergärig, means top-fermenting and these will be the ale yeasts. The final list, Ungeeignete, are the unsuitable beers. Presumably these bottles do not contain the primary strain."
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