Easy Cider...

[Airgead]

I put down a 1/2 batch of Frankos recipe last night. Stupidly I didn't know there was a difference between White Labs liquid yeast and Wyeast liquid yeast (I've alway used dried yeasts in the past) so just asked my LHBS for "liquid cider yeast" and ended up with white labs WLP775 English Cider Yeast.
http://www.whitelabs.com/beer/strains_wlp775.html

Still I imagine it will be better than just using champagne yeast. Has anyone tried it before? I also attempted cultivating it which I have also never done before. A lot of firsts for me!

This morning it was bubbling away happily, albeit a bit slow compared to what I read about it's Wyeast cousin (I'm sure it only being a 1/2 batch attributes to this).

I used the 775 a couple of times. It did a pretty good job. Was a while ago so I can't remember why I switched to the 4766. It could be that it was just easier to get as it was before I started slanting.

Cheers
Dave