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Share your experiences of using brewing yeast.
Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:47 am

Good luck with the Wherry JMR 8)

james_m_r

Post by james_m_r » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:56 am

youngs yeast it is then. cheers all.

Vossy1

Post by Vossy1 » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:59 am

There are a couple of members here that use Youngs yeast, they've said it either was or had very similar characteristics to Nottingham yeast. IMO this yeast is excellent. (Not quite so good in bottles as it doesnt compact as well as some but if you pour carefully that's no big deal).
I just did a search under Danstar as I thought the Nottingham rang a bell.

It's also apparently sold as Gervin English Ale Yeast, which I used pretty much as a standard dried yeast ti'll moving to ag.

SteveD

Post by SteveD » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:43 am

james_m_r wrote:(only had 4 bottles so far due to the wife giving birth 2 weeks ago, it is killing me) and seeing that the ones filled towards the end have a lot more sediment settled at the bottom compared to the ones bottled first which I guess is normal? When drinking the latter bottles is the usual procedure to leave (waste) a bit of beer in the bottom of the bottle to avoid transfering the sediment to your pint glass?
Congratulations on the bubby! :D

Pour clean what you can into the glass. Then take the bottle, swizz up the dregs, and it knock back yeast and all. It's good beer, and good yeast. Why waste it? It makes a grand tonic, full of B vitamins. Then drink the beer. In a certain Belgian bar, which happens to be the DeKoninck 'brewery tap', they serve the beer together with a shot glass of the brewery yeast. Knock back the yeast, drink the beer.

SteveD

Post by SteveD » Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:10 am

DaaB wrote:
In a certain Belgian bar, which happens to be the DeKoninck 'brewery tap', they serve the beer together with a shot glass of the brewery yeast.
I bet it aint the Youngs or Nottingham yeast strain though :out :-&
I bet it ain't too! T-58? ;) Go on! It puts hairs on your chest! Or even someone else's chest!

james_m_r

Post by james_m_r » Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:00 pm

Cheers for the tip SD. I will give it a go when I get the chance.

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