Share your experiences of using brewing yeast.
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Garth
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by Garth » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:35 pm
Got some of this last week from H&G, apparently it's only been released recently, bought it to use some wheat malt up,
anyone had any experience of it? will it produce the banana flavour like Brewferm does?

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Ross
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by Ross » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:54 pm
Still waiting for this one to arrive in Aus - Should be any day now.
What's the brewferm yeast you refer to? Is it a dried wheat yeast that produces good banana & clove?
cheers Ross
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by Garth » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:57 am
aye Ross, it's the Brewferm Blanche one, myself and a few others on here used it for Phil's Hefe recipe, and it did indeed have a bananary twang to it

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by steve_flack » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:17 pm
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by J_P » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:19 pm
Ross wrote:Still waiting for this one to arrive in Aus - Should be any day now.
What's the brewferm yeast you refer to? Is it a dried wheat yeast that produces good banana & clove?
cheers Ross
I have had loads of banana and clove notes using Safbrew T58
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by Garth » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:05 pm
thanks for that Steve, I forgot they did those sheets
JP, I think I used T-58 in a Styrian Stunner before, is that the one that can give spicy notes?
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by J_P » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:10 pm
Garth wrote:thanks for that Steve, I forgot they did those sheets
JP, I think I used T-58 in a Styrian Stunner before, is that the one that can give spicy notes?
According to the packet it does but all I got was bananas after drinking the sample jar when I bottled it. In its defence the banana worked really well with the dark malts I had used in the brew
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by Garth » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:33 pm
Ah, so I take it it's still maturing, which one is on your rather extensive list? you beer hoarder you....

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by J_P » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:45 pm
Garth wrote:Ah, so I take it it's still maturing, which one is on your rather extensive list? you beer hoarder you....

Beer hoarder me

never!
It's the thunderhead
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by Garth » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:53 pm
so how long before that baby gets done in?
btw you must have some patience (which of course is an ideal trait in hbing)
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by J_P » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:11 pm
It was bottled on the 2nd July but brewed on the 23rd June IIRC.
It was supposed to be a copy of thwaites Double Century and I wanted the spicy notes from the yeast to compliment the spicy bitter orange notes I got from the EKG s and Bramling Cross.
I wasn't that chuffed with the resultant bananas! Couple this with the fact my brew tent was destroyed by a freak lightening and hail storm I should have christened it something too rude to use in my signature

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by Ross » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:48 pm
Interesting you got banana from T-58. i've used a few times & just got a typical Belgian spicyness, what temp did you ferment at?
Cheers Ross
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by J_P » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:59 pm
Ross wrote:Interesting you got banana from T-58. i've used a few times & just got a typical Belgian spicyness, what temp did you ferment at?
Cheers Ross
According to my greenhouse max/min thermometer it doesn't get above 18C in my back room. This said I haven't had too much Belgian beer so it could be Belgian spiciness, it just wasn't the spiciness I was after!
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by Garth » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:09 pm
I had a bottle of that Thwaites Double the other night, it was canny, (from what I remember)
