Breweries and their yeasts resource

[Galena]

I stumbled across this and thought it may be useful? looks like a Spanish site with a list of what yeasts are used by British Breweries.
HERE

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

I used to be a tour guide at Robinsons Brewery in Stockport - leading brewery tours

I never thought to ask what strain of yeast, but they have been using the same one since 1942

 

[Pezza24]

I used to be a tour guide at Robinsons Brewery in Stockport - leading brewery tours

I never thought to ask what strain of yeast, but they have been using the same one since 1942

Off topic but once had a meeting in the conference centre at Robinson's. Cracking setup. Unicorn is a lovely drop of beer.

 

[Galena]

I used to be a tour guide at Robinsons Brewery in Stockport - leading brewery tours

I never thought to ask what strain of yeast, but they have been using the same one since 1942

I used to drink a fair bit of Robinson's Bitter back in the 70's but they (like many others) seem to have changed the recipe at some point. To be honest these days I don't really like Robinson's beers, they tried with Dizzy Blonde but it just wasn't there imo. Trooper is popular but I didn't reaaly think much of it, though looking at thier website they do have a few beers there I have not tried like cascade or Cumbria way.

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

Off topic but once had a meeting in the conference centre at Robinson's. Cracking setup. Unicorn is a lovely drop of beer.

Yes the new generation of Robinsons (6th) are really bringing the business up to date, clever marketing and brand-new brew kit

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

I used to drink a fair bit of Robinson's Bitter back in the 70's but they (like many others) seem to have changed the recipe at some point. To be honest these days I don't really like Robinson's beers, they tried with Dizzy Blonde but it just wasn't there imo. Trooper is popular but I didn't reaaly think much of it, though looking at thier website they do have a few beers there I have not tried like cascade or Cumbria way.

I have never been a great fan of their beers to be honest (none are malty enough for me)

Their beers changed significantly when they upgraded their kit about 10 years ago. Upto that point they were brewing in copper vessels originally installed in the 1880s. The whole system gave them very little control of the brewing process i.e. a 57,000 pint mash tun had one thermometer - could only be warmed via putting in more hot liquor or ice to cool. Upto the 90's the brewers were entitled to 8 pints per shift to drink - so I imagine there was a fair degree of variation from one brew to the next

Their new kit is stainless steel and all controlled from a computer. My view is that it has improved the consistency of the brews so that they are now to me acceptable. Before then I never really liked Robbies beers - I always felt that it had a certain unpleasant taste

As in many breweries new brews are created by marketing people

 

[An Ankoù]

I stumbled across this and thought it may be useful? looks like a Spanish site with a list of what yeasts are used by British Breweries.
HERE

That's a fascinating link, although I think the entry for Eldridge Pope is wrong. I would say they probably used the Super High Gravity yeast for the Thomas Hardy Ale, but I don't see why they'd use it for their other ales.

 

[trueblue]

It looks like a lot of the information is taken from the old Mr Malty "information" that has proved contentious to say the least. Fairly sure this is the same map that was doing the rounds around the same time. GW having worked as a consultant to several of the mentioned brewery's knew the provenience of a lot of the strains and he was adamant the Mr Malty claims were mainly wide of the mark.

 

[Sadfield]

Robbies. Old Tom is cracking, everything else they brew is variations on a theme. That theme is insipid.

 

[crescent city Mike]

Up to the 90's the brewers were entitled to 8 pints per shift to drink - so I imagine there was a fair degree of variation from one brew to the next

I've known some old timers who worked in breweries who told me that they could drink all the beer they wanted. The only stipulation was "Don't get drunk!" That was cause for termination.
I found an old article about brewery workers which brought out a completely different perspective for me.
https://crescentcitybrewtalk.com/strength-of-brewery-workmen/

 

[Galena]

I've known some old timers who worked in breweries who told me that they could drink all the beer they wanted. The only stipulation was "Don't get drunk!" That was cause for termination.
I found an old article about brewery workers which brought out a completely different perspective for me.
https://crescentcitybrewtalk.com/strength-of-brewery-workmen/

I'm glad I am not a Shoemaker Back in the eighties I worked for a company that supplied cleaning chemicals, the company was based near Hammersmith and supplied the brewery trade amongst others. I was not much involved with the brewery side but I gather that all the meetings our reps and service engineers went to included compulsory beer drinking.
Having said that, I was in the building trade in the late 70's and pub lunches were common place.
More recently contracting on the railway when German lorries made a delivery the driver would often give us each a case of beer for helping unload, even the sight of a can of beer by the wrong person was enough to get the sack.

 

[crescent city Mike]

I stumbled across this and thought it may be useful? looks like a Spanish site with a list of what yeasts are used by British Breweries.
HERE

Here's another beer map:
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[crescent city Mike]

It looks like the link is a dud. I'll see if I can find an active link and repost.

 

[crescent city Mike]

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=20400768328264
0843034.0004d7bc8c4d60105c10d
There was a glitch in the link. It works fine now.

 

[Galena]

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=20400768328264
0843034.0004d7bc8c4d60105c10d
There was a glitch in the link. It works fine now.

Well found, that seems to be a better source of exactly the same resource

 

[Galena]

Reading through some of the breweries I found this rather snobbish comment amusing

"Charles Wells Brewery
description
Charles Wells Brewery yeast, from the now relocated Eagle Brewery, originally in Horne Lane, Bedford, is WLP006 Bedford Ale. Interestingly, Safale S04 dry yeast, long thought by the great uneducated internet masses to be a form of Whitbread, is actually believed to be related to the Bedford strain. "