Which yeast for a dark rye porter - Safale s33 or Notty?

[Algernon]

I have used Danstar Notty before and made a good beer. Bought S33 recently and not tried it - might be interesting to try it in a familiar brew to see how it turns out.
Anybody got any thoughts on this?

 

[Algernon]

Well, after much debate and furious internetting, I decided I will try s33 on a small batch another time, maybe when I have rigged up fermenting fridges etc. Looks like a lot of effort and delay for not much benefit.
Notty it is :-)

 

[clibit]

Why not split a batch into two fermenters and compare? They are both cheap yeasts.

 

[kev]

I made a porter last week (see link below) and the intention of this being to ferment down to 1020 and age with oak from a whisky barrel. Lovely stuff.

I had various yeasts in stock but nothing that would be considered a traditional porter yeast. I then read a fair bit online about people using White Labs California V Ale yeast in porters. This is a yeast I almost always have as I use it on a few beers.

Done a bit more reading (links below) and it seemed perfect. The attenuation was exactly what I needed to hit my 1020 target and the flavour descriptions seemed spot on whilst being clean enough to let the whisky/oak shine through.

So in it went last saturday and I had a wee sample the other day and it's tasting really really good so far. I'm very impressed with this yeast in a porter. I'll definitely do it again.

K

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http://www.whitelabs.com/yeast/wlp051-c ... le-v-yeast
http://www.whitelabs.com/recipes/porter ... a-v-porter