any improvement on s-04

[slurp the apprentice]

whats the difference between nottingham and us-05 i am happy to try both but i do want to be in a position to buy a 500 gram brick i know charles farem do sell us-05 not sure about the other

[steve_flack]

An awful lot of smaller micro's use Nottingham for convenience. It's an easy to use yeast but I've tasted beers that have been identical apart from the yeast and the Nottingham had killed the hop aroma in the beer compared to the beer brewed with a brewery yeast (Charles Wells' actually) Having said that, I've made some nice beers with nottingham and used to use it in nearly everything.

US-05 is a good yeast but can be slow to floc unless you use finings. I think I said it would be good for Kolschs and pseudo-lagers if you can't do temperature control. Given the choice I'd still use a lager yeast over US-05 if you can keep the beer cold.

BTW, Farams sell both.

[slurp the apprentice]

Ok i will make a trial for nottingham and us-05 and see which one performs best in brewing the same pale ale which will probably be deuchars clone.I will let you know the results and ask eskimobob to assist in the judging.unfortunately this wont be soon due to holiday commitments

[David Edge]

You could also take it along to the Midlands meeting in Newark on 8 September to get some views. See website

http://www.midlandscraftbrewing.org.uk/

If you stumble upon the page that says it is 15/9, no, the organsier has confirmed it is 08 Sept!

[slurp the apprentice]

Thanks for the invite i probably wont make that date as i will only just be back from holiday but i would like to consider future meetings as iam sure i could learn a lot .