Hopback Summer Lightening

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Hopback Summer Lightening

Post by johnmac » Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:13 pm

I'm culturing some of this yeast. Does anyone know what characteristics it has and what strain it is, please?
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Post by Aleman » Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:18 pm

Gillian Grafton (UK Homebrew founder) has done a lot of work on cloning summer lightning, and the yeast is the primary strain (Or was). According to Gillian it doesn't perform well on the first batch, but settles down and behaves itself subsequently. Sh did say that you get some funky flavours from it when fermenting it above 19C.

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Re: Hopback Summer Lightening

Post by Aleman » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:35 pm

DaaB wrote:(Aleman, the recipe for SL is straight forward, Optic, Challenger and Goldings to finish for cask ale, and just Goldings for the bottled ales, it's mashed at 66 deg c and fermented at 19 deg c...straight from the head brewer)
They weren't that forthcoming in 95, when Gillian was working on the clone :D
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Post by johnmac » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:48 pm

Thanks chaps! I've gathered from the starter that it likes to flocculate. Dregs from two bottles are going well after 48h. Tomorrow, I'll step the 500ml up to 3l.

Hopback has not been going long, in brewery terms, so I'm guessing it's not their own strain. Intriguing that nobody seems to know the answer to that?

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