Crossmyloof Real Ale Yeast

[MyQul]

No. That's why I asked! :lol:

I have a bottle of Fullers 1845 in the fridge ready for when I next fancy doing a bitter. I might have to get hold of a bottle of pedigree and try the yeast.

 

[Gunge]

I have a bottle of Fullers 1845 in the fridge ready for when I next fancy doing a bitter. I might have to get hold of a bottle of pedigree and try the yeast.

Is there a list of bottle-conditioned beers somewhere on here, along with recommendations?

Edit: Sorry just found it, right on the index page, doh!

 

[MickDundee]

Is there a list of bottle-conditioned beers somewhere on here, along with recommendations?

It's a sticky in the grain water and yeast forum:
http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=58007

 

[MyQul]

Is there a list of bottle-conditioned beers somewhere on here, along with recommendations?

Yup. MD beat me to the linky :thumb:

 

[Gunge]

Thanks lads , had no kip yet after doing nights. Think I need to lie down.

 

[Covrich]

Tbh, even though it ferments fast, I think I've gone off the real ale yeast. It just doesnt do what I want it to, basically give me enough esters. Also, It's very malty but it gives too dry a finish because of the high attenuation (80%), which I find a bit unbalanced.
I have 5L stovetopper bitter in the FV at the mo. I did a gravity reading/taste last night and it had the above 'problems'. It's OK but not what I want my bitters to be like. In future I think I'll just nick yeast from bottle conditioned beers for bitters.

Looking for something a bit fruitier?

 

[MyQul]

Looking for something a bit fruitier?

Yeah, defiantely. I just find it too clean. The fullers yeast is my bench mark, so I think I'll just go with some of that next time

 

[Saisonator]

I have a bottle of Fullers 1845 in the fridge ready for when I next fancy doing a bitter. I might have to get hold of a bottle of pedigree and try the yeast.

I wondered how this compares the buying an equivalent liquid yeast from a HB shop?
I plan to do a Yorkshire Bitter next and I am considering the 1845 route.

 

[MyQul]

I wondered how this compares the buying an equivalent liquid yeast from a HB shop?
I plan to do a Yorkshire Bitter next and I am considering the 1845 route.

How do you mean? Taste-wise? Price-wise?

 

[Saisonator]

How do you mean? Taste-wise? Price-wise?

Taste wise?

 

[Thorbz]

I've tried a couple of the commercial versions of Fuller's yeast, and harvested from Bengal Lancer, and they seemed identical to me.

 

[MyQul]

Taste wise?

If you mean how does the Fullers strain compare to WLP002/Wyeast 1968, I'm not sure as bottles of 1845/bengal lancer are easy enought to get hold of. So I've never bothered buying 002/1968 but these bought yeasts are supposed to be the same strain/Fullers strain.

 

[Covrich]

Yeah, defiantely. I just find it too clean. The fullers yeast is my bench mark, so I think I'll just go with some of that next time

CAnnot really comment because my only use with the real ale was a stuck one which got a pelicle and I needed to finish with a belle saison (it ate the pelicle too!)

But Yeah I agree, often the clean dry yeasts are thrown in or put in a recipe a lot by default in Bitters and English ales But I prefer the fruiter breadier sweeter less attenuated flavours.

 

[MyQul]

CAnnot really comment because my only use with the real ale was a stuck one which got a pelicle and I needed to finish with a belle saison (it ate the pelicle too!)

But Yeah I agree, often the clean dry yeasts are thrown in or put in a recipe a lot by default in Bitters and English ales But I prefer the fruiter breadier sweeter less attenuated flavours.

Its not a bad yeast. It just doesnt do what I want it to do

 

[MyQul]

Whilst this is a bit cleaner than I want it to be, this is a fantastic fast turn around yeast. It's carbed the beer up in two days! (although there is a touch of sulphur on the nose, which will clean up in a couple more days). I'm liking this yeast for bitters more than I initially thought

 

[Clint]

Pitched a cml real ale on today's brew. ..gh summer ale. It's doing something after 5 hours..

 

[Godsdog]

slightly off thread but I pitched the crossmyloof US Pale Ale yeast instead of the blackrock pale ale kit yeast yesterday,rehydrated it in cooled boiled water for the advised 15 minutes,got up this morning and its a goer.tonight as we speak its got my tempremental fastfermenter air lock bubbling and the house smells like a bad fart, swmbo aint too pleased but well impressed am i:lol::thumb:

 

[Gunge]

the house smells like a bad fart, swmbo aint too pleased but well impressed am i:lol::thumb:

That's always a very positive sign.

 

[AdeDunn]

We'd never notice over the smell of actual bad fart that tends to be present in our home. :lol: Never even smelled any sulphurous smells from the Youngs cider, and pretty much everybody said it smelled bad....

I can only really judge the real ale yeast from re-starting the Headcracker kit, but I did indeed find that it is VERY malty, rather than the fruit flavours most report with this kit. Similar kettle of fish from the Wherry kit, much higher alcohol, nice malty flavour. Not tasted the ale I used the US Pale Ale yeast on yet as it's only just slowing down fermenting.

I suspect it's a case of horses for courses. You can't just bung any old yeast in and expect to get the exact result you want. If you could, you wouldn't have different strains and varieties I'm sure. Very tempting to just use CML stuff though as it's so cheap... lol Plus I actually like malty beer.

 

[MyQul]

We'd never notice over the smell of actual bad fart that tends to be present in our home. :lol: Never even smelled any sulphurous smells from the Youngs cider, and pretty much everybody said it smelled bad....

I can only really judge the real ale yeast from re-starting the Headcracker kit, but I did indeed find that it is VERY malty, rather than the fruit flavours most report with this kit. Similar kettle of fish from the Wherry kit, much higher alcohol, nice malty flavour. Not tasted the ale I used the US Pale Ale yeast on yet as it's only just slowing down fermenting.

I suspect it's a case of horses for courses. You can't just bung any old yeast in and expect to get the exact result you want. If you could, you wouldn't have different strains and varieties I'm sure. Very tempting to just use CML stuff though as it's so cheap... lol Plus I actually like malty beer.

Its good if you use if for low OG beers. Low OG beers are notoriusly hard to get body into. I'm currently drinking a 1.036 bitter that I used the real ale yeast in and it's defianatly got a lot of malty body to it

Apparently you get a tax break if a beer is below a certain OG (I'm not exactly sure what that OG is) but you never really see them around. I would suggest that this is because of the difficulty of making a good low OG beer. I cant believe commercial breweries would miss out on a tax break, especially as profit margins are so slim in the industry, if this wasnt the case