Best Yeast For Lager Please

[cosmo]

hi guys thanks for your help on my first brew bottled now and in garage but now am wanting to do a lager and brew at a lower temperature am thinking of doing in my garage but am wondering after reading on here which yeast to use/buy.
have yet to find a decent homebrew shop over here tried to get some info the other day and the guy was a total plick so thanks for any help :icon_cheers: :icon_cheers:

 

[theMISSIONARY]

i used SAFlager W34/70 last winter for a Coopers Lager it turned out nice

they list the Yeasts here :icon_cheers:

http://www.fermentis.com/FO/60-Beer/60-11_...uct_rangeHB.asp

 

[Bribie G]

Another good basic one is S-189 Swiss Dried Lager yeast, from the Hurlimann brewery apparently. It makes nice clean lagers and is quite happy to ferment at around 16 degrees.

 

[Nick JD]

Another good basic one is S-189 Swiss Dried Lager yeast, from the Hurlimann brewery apparently. It makes nice clean lagers and is quite happy to ferment at around 16 degrees.

It's not farty either. I'm starting to lean towards it being superior to 34/70 and wish I'd used it earlier.

 

[cosmo]

thanks guys will try this one next and see how we go,must say am keen on cracking open one of my very first batch but its only been bottled a couple days hahaha

 

[cosmo]

how cold would to cold be do you think,over here in nz getting rather cold at moment

 

[waggastew]

+ another one for S189 Swiss Lager

Just bottled a Morgans Blue Mountain lager with S-189. Brewed at 12degC, very clean ferment, not alot of sulphur by the end of the ferment. Rehydrated and pitched at 20degC then cooled down. Very easy to use

 

[cosmo]

sorry can you explain "rehydrated" and pitched does that mean you started the yeast off again seperately and then added to wort hahaha sorry still getting use to descriptions

 

[Wolfy]

sorry can you explain "rehydrated" and pitched does that mean you started the yeast off again seperately and then added to wort hahaha sorry still getting use to descriptions

Step 5 as shown/explained here: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter1-1.html