sierra nevada yeast

[Easy Peasie]

Does anybody know whether sierra Nevada pale ale has the primary strain for bottle conditioning, and if so which strain it is and whether its worth cultivating. Ta. :thumb:

 

[oldstout]

Dunno, but I'd steer clear of the Sierra Leone stuff, chance it'll blow yer heed off....

 

[artiums_enteri]

Sierra nevada like most other American craft breweries does not bottle condition. They filter to a .5 micron before running the beer through a huge inline hop back from the the fermenter to the brite tank. While doing this the beer is injected with C02. From there the beer is hit with C02 once more during bottling.

CA Wyeast 1056 is the yeast they use for primary fermentation. Fermentation temp is held at 61* until the beer is run through the hop back into the brite tank and 34*.

 

[BeerEagle]

Last bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale I had certainly had a little bit of yeast in the bottle.

 

[artiums_enteri]

That's kind of strange unless they prepare the beer differently to ship over seas. Filtering down to .5 microns there should be nothing in the beer.

 

[Wilt]

I have successfully cultivated yeast from a bottle of SNPA, In fact I may still have a couple of slopes, The yeast when I re used it was neutral, similar flavour and aroma profile to US-05.

 

[Darcey]

White Labs WLP001 / Wyeast 1056 / Fermentis US-05... its all the same thing! The dried yeast has a slightly different flavour but that may be down to lag times / stressing the yeast. I guess if you made starters up for all 3 of the above you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I cultured some WLP001 from a local micro untill I found out that it was US-05 and now just make starters from the dry yeast saves all that faffing around!

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[Easy Peasie]

Will probaly just stick with the US-05 I was gunn do. Artiums the bottle of SNPA states it is bottle conditioned and the first bottle I had was cloudy and the second a couple of days later definitely had a layer of yeast in the bottom after being allowed to settle. Can't believe I've been buying beer - stocked up on homebrew before christmas, but been decorating gardening to tidy house up to put it on the market had a bad back for a couple of weeks and now well behind although have 25l of Porter conditioning and 25l of Nelson Sauvin pale ale in secondary and planning another this weekend so should build up the stocks for summer.

Cheers Guys :

 

[jamesb]

You're both right.

SN reseed their bottles after filtration.

"Just before bottling, our ales receive a small dosage of brewer's yeast, which produces a secondary fermentation in the bottle, adding character and developing the perfect level of carbonation. The small amount of brewer's yeast at the bottom of each bottle attests to this traditional method of natural carbonation."

Primary strain or not I don't know, but going by the normal flocculation of chico strains I wouldn't be suprised if it isn't. I also wouldn't be suprised if it was.

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

I captured it,

it is **** compared to others...

 

[Easy Peasie]

Thanks for that Robbarwell.
Will give that one a miss Ta.

 

[Darcey]

I captured it,

it is **** compared to others...

Love it right to the point! ...

Now thats sorted.. what next!