Dry yeast...best for...

[Clint]

Who makes that Foxy?

 

[foxy]

Angel yeast

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

I've read other forumites have had problems with it's floccing but it's always been a very good floccer whenever use it

I can’t recall having any issues with this. I’m going to be racking a fake lager tomorrow that is cold crashing now. I used the Cali common in that so ’ll see then I suppose.

 

[dwhite60]

Angel yeast

CN-36.

Alibaba sells that. Looks like it's produced in China.

Interesting.

 

[foxy]

Brouland sell it in the EU, Angel produced their brewing yeast from strains gathered around Europe, I suspect a large part of the hybrid is Nottingham. I used to use mainly SO4 in the dry yeast strains, now it's predominantly the CN-36.
As with other dry yeasts no aeration or oxygenation needed, but they do recommend re hydration.

 

[user 18729]

The Ringwood strain is good at dropping bright and staying put. Excellent for anything English that needs some yeast character- my go to yeast. I’m planning on trying it in an APA at some stage

 

[Cyberjip]

I was chatting to the brewers at a local micro recently and they said that they almost exclusively use US-05. They were dismissive of S-04, for its flavour profile and hated Nottingham because of the mess it left on the bottom of the FV. I know its different priorities, but personally I like all three yeasts in the appropiate beer style.

When I worked at a microbrewery (west yorkshire) we started using mainly S-04 but switched to using US-05 exclusivley. Could litrally save half an hour a day just on how long it took to clean the FV. I will add we mainly brewed pale hoppy beers so we liked the clean profile from the US-05

 

[Clint]

My CML Kveik arrived this morning...looking forward to using this.

 

[clib]

I've been playing around with pitching blends of different dried yeasts for a while now, and some of that with the aim of getting less flocculate strains to drop. When I was researching I came across the following: Clarification / Flocculation | Wyeast Laboratories

It worked really well with the Lallemand New England yeast and S04 -that made a great beer.

Highly recommend co-pitching though. Lots of fun to be had.

In terms of single strain dried yeasts that flocc well and stick, I don't care for Notty but I get good results with S04 - lots of folk give it a bad wrap but I quite like it.

Old post dig up time.

I've been blending dry yeasts for a couple of years. I had completely avoided S-04 for a long time until recently when i pitched it into a split batch of ordinary bitter, half with Lalbrew London and half with S-33. I'm pleased with the results and I like the touch of acid that S-04 provides, maybe as it is offset by the contributions made by the other yeasts. Similar OBs I've made with other yeasts like 1318 have been a tad too sweet for my liking, so maybe S-04 blended with these yeasts would work, for me. S-04 also does the floccing and the attenuating that S-33 and others don't do so well. I'll order S-04 again to try with other strains.

 

[MashBag]

I think you will find it very complimentary. I will be interested to hear your results.