Funktown Yeast (Whitelabs)

[Patterd Ale]

Anyone used this yeast? Whitelabs funktown, got cheap from The Malt Miller, sounds interesting. Any advice greatly received!
Cheers

[seymour]

You guys crack me up! I'll never be able to afford all the stuff I KNOW I wanna brew with. I can't even consider buying stuff I don't even know what it is. But hey, this was a good purchase and you'll have fun with it.

That Yeast Bay Funktown Pale Ale is a yeast blend of "Vermont Ale" (from The Alchemist Heady Topper IPA, which definitely emphasizes hops, is more estery than typical American Ale yeast, with a hazy and gunky appearance. Don't let that be a turn-off, Heady Topper is one of the highest-rated beers on earth) plus Brett C (Brettanomyces Claussenii, considered fairly low intensity, more aroma than flavour, for added pineapple and mango notes.) I've used both strains separately and tasted many commercial beers made with each, but never those two strains together (that I know of). I can certainly imagine it would be perfect for an over-the-top funky fruity IPA recipe, sour saison, hoppy farmhouse ale, something oddball like that. Leave your beer in secondary fermentation for a very long time in order for the brett to express itself, then dry hop about 10 days before you plan to bottle/keg.

It'll definitely be too funky and cloudy for unaware Pale Ale drinkers, so beware. But go for it, just don't waste the resulting masterpiece on your sissy friends!

[Patterd Ale]

Thanks Seymour, sounds like it should be good. Bargain at £2 or whatever it was.
I had best get some more hops then by the sound of it. I bought 500g of Wakatu for a fiver, quite unexciting hops but shall have a think about what to pair them with.
Good information and advice Sir as ever.