What Yeast for ESB?

cwiseman77 · Mar 1, 2013

So currently brewing an English Special Bitter and was looking for advice on which yeast would be best, or how they might alter the final taste. I currently have S-04, S-33, T-58 and Danstar, was leaning towards the 58 hoping for a bit of a spicy finish? Any ideas?

Some background on the brew and what I want to achieve:

Style: ESB
IBU: 41
OG: 1.040
FG: 1.011

Colour SRM: 7

2.5kg Light DME
125g crystal malt

Bittering Hops: Apollo (20%)
Flavouring: Progress (4.45%) & East Kent Golding (4.49%)
Aroma:Progress (4.45%) & East Kent Golding (4.49%)

Planning 4 hop additions

jonewer · Mar 1, 2013

Why not culture up some ESB yeast from a Bottle?

Edit - But I do like T58. Its become my fave yeast recently. Very well behaved little beasts apart from the fart smells they sometimes make.

cwiseman77 · Mar 1, 2013

jonewer said:
Why not culture up some ESB yeast from a Bottle?

Edit - But I do like T58. Its become my fave yeast recently. Very well behaved little beasts apart from the fart smells they sometimes make.

Ended up going with the T58, will see what happens. I just wanted to branch out, I've had so much success with S-04 that I've used it for almost all my ales, but thought I should give something else a go. I rehydrated and chucked it in when the wort was about 16C, immersion bringing it slowly up to fermentation temp now 18-20

jonewer · Mar 1, 2013

Have you tried T58 before?

Hope you like it as much I do.

cwiseman77 · Mar 2, 2013

jonewer said:
Have you tried T58 before?

Hope you like it as much I do.

Nope, first time. What should I expect? What styles do you tend to use it for?

jonewer · Mar 2, 2013

I've used it in a variety of stuff. First brew with it was a coriander and orange peel job and jolly nice it was too.

Brewedout · Mar 4, 2013

I really like white labs 002, gives a nice flavour and drops out dead fast. If you go to whitelabs website for home brewers they give good details about all of their yeasts.