WLP005

[Dips Me Lid]

Old school style.

Reckon I might wack out an ESB tomorrow.

TF Maris Otter, Crystal, EKG and 005.

That's about my exact recipe Spiesy, I mix the dark and medium Simpson's crystals for that dark fruit richness, and a little bit of late Styrian in with the EKGs. I got the WLP 005 from Full Pint and just wanted to say cheers for putting up the best before dates on your website, makes it easy to plan a starter.

 

[Dips Me Lid]

Hi DML,

I was looking at this strain after making a couple of beers lately with WLP002. I was hoping to start a house strain with 002 but when you make a starter the yeast clumps together like cheddar and makes it hard to decant portions for future starters.

Does the 005 have the same thing? (you may be re-using a cake or washing yeast Im not sure)

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/82841-wtf-wlp002-looks-wrong/?p=1225223

Hey mate, the 005 is not as flocculant as the 002 so it's a bit easier to work with when repitching and making starters, I rinse the 005 without to much hassle, I basically follow Jamil's method of rinsing and seems to work.

Flavour wise to me the 005 has more pronounced sulphur, mineral, stonefruit esters, whereas the 002 I find a bit cleaner and perhaps a more versatile yeast to use as a house strain, it seems to play well with American hops.

 

[TheWiggman]

My HSD recipe managed to chew its way down to 1.007 once the weather warmed up. That'll put it almost bang on my target ABV (SG slightly under due to horror brew day) but will probably be a touch dry.
In saying that, tastes bloody glorious out of the fermenter. What is this ESB nectar and why have I not drunk it before? Bottling for a mate, so will go super low carb (thinking 40g dextrose for bulk prime) and get him to nitro syringe it. I feel like carbonating this will be offensive somehow. Loving the Fuggles/EKG on the nose too.

 

[Dips Me Lid]

Sounds tasty Wiggman, what does HSD stand for? Low carbonation is a good option for most English beers I reckon.

 

[Spiesy]

That's about my exact recipe Spiesy, I mix the dark and medium Simpson's crystals for that dark fruit richness, and a little bit of late Styrian in with the EKGs. I got the WLP 005 from Full Pint and just wanted to say cheers for putting up the best before dates on your website, makes it easy to plan a starter.

Awww... thanks mate.

Yeah I'd like to experiment with a some dark crystal in there, such a good beer, but I went with brewing a pils today instead. Next brew!

 

[Dips Me Lid]

It's definitely heading into pils drinking weather, good call.

 

[TheWiggman]

Sounds tasty Wiggman, what does HSD stand for? Low carbonation is a good option for most English beers I reckon.

Hick's Special Draught - http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/79086-st-austell-hsd-hicks-special-draught/

 

[Dips Me Lid]

Ahh, of course, I should have twigged seeing that I posted in that thread.

 

[brewinski]

FWIW ... the English Brown that I made finished out very nicely with this yeast ... I washed it and kept it in the fridge since ... I got it out yesterday and poured off a bit of the water on top as I let it warm up, to pitch it into an iPA ... by the time I was ready, it had already gotten active/excited in the jar and started to expand ... I pitched it at around 5pm, and by 5 hrs later it was already bubbling along, then this morning it was pounding bubbles out the blow off ... what a yeast

 

[brewinski]

I have washed 3 and reused 2 yeasts ... one being the WPL005 mentioned above, and the other was some "Funktown" ...

I am pretty sure I washed, sanitised, everything correctly, and don't feel that there is anything wrong (colour or smell) ... both of these yeasts have gone off like a fire cracker compared, to the first time I used them. The Funktown was bubbling away as I poured it into the wort, and the wort seemed to start fermenting within an hour ... this morning it had blown a heap of junk out the blow off, and has pounded away all day, and filled a second/replacement blow off tube with junk too ... the wort is swirling away like crazy all day.... not that I have not seen any of this before, but nay sir, never this volatile.

So my question is, is that all fine ... maybe an over pitch? ... I pitched half of what I washed (one of 2 jars) which was 180 - 200ml into a 5L wort (at 20C)

cheers

 

[Yob]

If it was reasonably fresh, ~60 - 80ml should be sufficient for a 23lt batch...

 

[antiphile]

And IMHO, you shouldn't ignore WLP004 (Irish Ale). I did a Red Ale and I'll admit it didn't turn out as "red" as I would have liked, but it tastes just glorious. Very very impressed. Now it's chewing it's way through a Scottish 80 shilling, and initial impressions are very good, and I think it's probably at FG.

I'll really have to do and ESB with it now.

Would love to hear opinions from other users. Cheers, Phil

 

[mofox1]

This yeast is one amazing mutha flocker.

After less than 48hrs on the stir plate (and not crash chilled), 3L starter, dropped like a stone:


And video (can't work out how to attach video in-situ):
http://cdn.aussiehomebrewer.com/uploads/albums/gallery/album_1225/gallery_34854_1225_50933.mp4