Bottle Conditioned Beers - Supermarkets

[robbarwell]

For the record Thwaites use their own strain of yeast. It's beautiful to use...goes off like a rocket, brilliant for top cropping, drops like a stone when completed.

If you rack to secondary and chill for a day or so you can almost see the bottom of the FV it's that good..Most of the Microsoft around me use it as an arrangement with Thwaites. So if you can find a micro that uses this yeast then you could culture of of their bottles too.

I must add...if you are cheeky like me....take a bottle of your finest to the nearest microbrewery for them to sample. The brewery might give you some pointers as to improvements to your brews and may give you some of the spare yeast that they normally throw away

[orlando]

Right, few bottles of Nutty Black it is then, thank.

[vacant]

My son just let me know he found sediment in Godfathers. It says it is available bottle-conditioned here.

[mozza]

Bump

[lord.president]

Nutty Black is a popular in discount stores such as B&M and Home Bargains. Indeed my missus works in Home Bargains and regularly fetches it home at a whopping £1.19....!

[robbarwell]

Just successfully trapped the Hopback yeast, this is a good un too. Top cropper and drops like a stone. I captured Burton yeast from a bottle of triple, its fermented through in a jar has dropped out of suspension but looks like its a bit cloudy on the bottom of the jar, by comparison, the Hopback has dropped like a rock and is welded to the bottom of the jar.

So far I've managed to capture:-

1) Bengal Lancer WLP002
2) St Austell
3) Thwaites
4) Hopback
5) Scottish and Newcastle
6) Burton Ale WLP023

All now tucked up on slants in my yeast fridge

Out of the lot only Hopback, Thwaites and Burton are true Top Croppers.

If I was to only use 1 yeast out of the lot it would be a toss up between the Hopback and Thwaites. They both ferment well, Hopback is good with hoppy beers. They both Top Crop like a whotsit and drop like a brick when chilled

[seymour]

Really great info, robbarwell! Thanks for sharing. Which bottle(s) did you capture the Scottish and Newcastle from?

[Invalid Stout]

Really great info, robbarwell! Thanks for sharing. Which bottle(s) did you capture the Scottish and Newcastle from?

Intriguing question. Scottish & Newcastle don't exist any more and when they did I can’t think when they last produced a bottle-conditioned beer.

[robbarwell]

I got it as a slant from Brewlab...its been renamed as F40

[DC]

BUMP ! anyone suggest any new yeasts from shop bought bottled conditioned beers??

Cheers DC

[Meatymc]

I've bought a couple of bottles of Proper Job (St Austell Brewery) which I'm hoping to recover from. Belting pint on draft in North Devon and is a genuine bottled conditioned. Can't say whether it's conditioned with the fermenting yeast though - time will tell.

Just checked on mysupermarket web site and seems widely available.

[robbarwell]

I've bought a couple of bottles of Proper Job (St Austell Brewery) which I'm hoping to recover from. Belting pint on draft in North Devon and is a genuine bottled conditioned. Can't say whether it's conditioned with the fermenting yeast though - time will tell.

Just checked on mysupermarket web site and seems widely available.

Ive had an email from brewery confirming that its the primary strain

[Meatymc]

Cheers Robberwell. Had hoped to give this a go this weekend but now find I'm volunteered to tile the daughters kitchen - joy!