Fullers 1845

[Drunkula]

Try waitrose for 1845. I picked A bottle up a week or two ago. Bengal Lancer from Fullers is also bottle conditioned. The Gales strain is fantastic IMO and can be got out of a bottle of HSB from ASDA

I'm culturing up from 1845 at the moment. I accidentally turned the plate off overnight and there's about 4mm of yeast in the bottom of a caffetiere so it's really coming along. Two bottle dregs straight into a litre of 1.040 spraymalt wort, and I forgot about yeast nutrient.

Have you tried the 1845 yeast before? I'll do the Gales strain, too. What's it like, and what beers should I be looking at to make with it? Thanks.

 

[MyQul]

I created a new thread for this (as you can see)

Yes I've cultured up the Fullers strain before, in fact I have a bottle of 1845 in my fridge at the moment to culture up.

It has a very distinctive ester flavour. Im not very good at describing flavours but others have described it as marmalade(y). It's great in anything English, bitters, stouts, milds etc. It's super flucculant and leave a clear beer quickly. Be a bit careful with it though as it has a tendancy to overcarbonate in the bottle. No problem with kegs though as you can vent.

 

[Drunkula]

Oh, thanks for the carbonation note as I'd probably have overdone it. Marmalade sounds great. I really messed up a chocolate orange beer recently and it could be good when I redo it. I'll do a mild or a bitter with the 1845.

Man alive you're right about it being flocculant. I took it off the stir plate about 40 minutes ago and put it in the fridge and there's loads on the bottom already. I had a taste of the wort when I took a gravity sample and it is lovely. It's got a fruitcakey taste and that's just with extra dark spraymalt. I am really looking forward to whatever I make with this.

What's the Gale's yeast like? I've read the Fuller's page on, and I know you like it. I'll be culturing up a HSB for sure.

 

[MyQul]

The Gales strain is another classic English style strain. It's quite fruity at the top end of the fermetation temps. I read somewhere or other that it gives a 'Dundee cake' flavour (which after googling I discovered is a kind of fruit cake) When I made an ESB with it, their was a definate fruit cake taste to the beer. But not so much with lower OG beers (although definately fruity)
Whenever I open a bottle of beer make with this strain, the immediate aroma remindes of an old school pub. I think it's because the Gales strain is a Whitbread B derivative. A classic, and widely used by brewerys up and down the country, strain
I have also discoved it's got a decent fermentation temp range. I tend not to use fermenation control, and have used the strain from 16.5C - 20C (ambient)
I defenately think you'll like the Gales strain

 

[Drunkula]

MyQul, as the litre starter had brewed out I made a hop tea and bottled the spent wort with it, then put in a fresh litre of wort. Within an hour it was frothing, 36 hours it had brewed out and I cold crashed it and had maybe trebled what yeast I already had. Doing some fag packet calcs I reckon I've got over 300 billion cells now.

Then I poured off some of the starter to taste it and no lie it was as good as 90 percent of the pub beers I've ever had. No bittering, just extra dark spraymalt. It was gorgeous, like a lovely Scottish ale. It made me think sod real brewing, I could just continually make demijohns on the stir plate.

Either making a simple Pedigree clone tomorrow, or Speckled Hen. And I'm doing a split wheat beer experiment with 3 different yeasts - CML Kristalweizen, S-33 and the Fuller's. The first two I've already done and were great so using an English ale strain is seeing how far I can muck about before it becomes terrible.

Cheers.

 

[terrym]

1845 is available in some Sainsburys in our area, but not others. Its also supposed to be in Waitrose but I couldn't see any. Apparently on offer in both.
Now got two bottles, one for a culture and one to compare to 1698.

 

[terrym]

Either making a simple Pedigree clone tomorrow...

Not using a Pedigree bottle culture?

 

[Drunkula]

Not using a Pedigree bottle culture?

Didn't know it was bottle conditioned. Might do it in the future. The three way wheat is happening instead because my EKG didn't turn up.

 

[marshbrewer]

Not using a Pedigree bottle culture?

I read somewhere (and I wish I'd bookmarked it because typically now I can't find it!) that it isn't the primary strain in Peddy but a bottling yeast.

 

[MyQul]

I read somewhere (and I wish I'd bookmarked it because typically now I can't find it!) that it isn't the primary strain in Peddy but a bottling yeast.

I think I read somewhere that too. I have a bottle of Marstons 1977 jubilee ale amongst my remaining 8 jubilee ales

 

[MyQul]

MyQul, as the litre starter had brewed out I made a hop tea and bottled the spent wort with it, then put in a fresh litre of wort. Within an hour it was frothing, 36 hours it had brewed out and I cold crashed it and had maybe trebled what yeast I already had. Doing some fag packet calcs I reckon I've got over 300 billion cells now.

Then I poured off some of the starter to taste it and no lie it was as good as 90 percent of the pub beers I've ever had. No bittering, just extra dark spraymalt. It was gorgeous, like a lovely Scottish ale. It made me think sod real brewing, I could just continually make demijohns on the stir plate.

Either making a simple Pedigree clone tomorrow, or Speckled Hen. And I'm doing a split wheat beer experiment with 3 different yeasts - CML Kristalweizen, S-33 and the Fuller's. The first two I've already done and were great so using an English ale strain is seeing how far I can muck about before it becomes terrible.

Cheers.

Interesting experiment

I like the way you bottled the spent wort rather than wasting it. I usually chuck it after tasting it to make sure it's ok

 

[Llamaman]

1845 is available in some Sainsburys in our area, but not others. Its also supposed to be in Waitrose but I couldn't see any. Apparently on offer in both.
Now got two bottles, one for a culture and one to compare to 1698.

Often £6 for 4 from Ocado, with ESB, London Pride, London Porter and Bengal Lancer also in the offer.
Alas, only the Lancer, 1845 and Golden Pride (the 8.5% monster) are bottle conditioned.
Fullers ESB, alongside Vocation Life and Death, are my favourite supermarket ‘school night’ beers.

 

[Drunkula]

This yeast is a thermal detonator. In a big chest freezer in an open, cold shed it's pushed itself to 23.9c. I've had to actually turn on the cooling switch on the STC. I didn't bother because I thought there would be absolutely no point. Going to have to try and find out how London ESB 1968 / WLP 002 behave at higher temps.

This could turn out to be a bit of a fruity bugger.

EDIT: There was some corrosion on the audio connector where it attaches to my STC changing the resistance. Everything above is pure lies.

 

[SteveH]

I happened to drink one of these while doing a brew last night, I've never attempted to culture yeast from bottle dregs before but for some reason it seemed like a good idea to try tipping the OG sample (100ml of 1.046 blonde ale wort) into the bottle to see what happens.

I don't have a stir plate, flask, or any of the things you're supposed to have so I sanitised the neck of the fullers bottle and some foil, wrapped the top and have been giving it a swirl every few hours when I remember.

Any tips on what to do next - is it crazy to attempt to build this experiment into something I could use in a brew without proper equipment?

There seems to be some froth on the surface already so it does seem to be doing something, just not sure what to do next!

I was thinking leave it a few more days, then make a ~1L DME wort, put that in a 2L sanitised pop bottle and stick an airlock in it?

 

[Slid]

I happened to drink one of these while doing a brew last night, I've never attempted to culture yeast from bottle dregs before but for some reason it seemed like a good idea to try tipping the OG sample (100ml of 1.046 blonde ale wort) into the bottle to see what happens.

I don't have a stir plate, flask, or any of the things you're supposed to have so I sanitised the neck of the fullers bottle and some foil, wrapped the top and have been giving it a swirl every few hours when I remember.

Any tips on what to do next - is it crazy to attempt to build this experiment into something I could use in a brew without proper equipment?

There seems to be some froth on the surface already so it does seem to be doing something, just not sure what to do next!

I was thinking leave it a few more days, then make a ~1L DME wort, put that in a 2L sanitised pop bottle and stick an airlock in it?

Not done this myself, yet, but am planning something similar!

I think your first set-up in volume depends very mush on how much yeast you have from your initial starter. unless you have a comparable amount to that which comes with a kit, perhaps an interim step-up (or more) is best?

@MyQul has some experience on this, but I also believe he could be busy with work at this time of year. If you look for a thread by Myqul and the word yeast, you should get more info.

 

[Slid]

Here we go

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...up-yeast-from-bottle-conditioned-beers.53567/

 

[MyQul]

I happened to drink one of these while doing a brew last night, I've never attempted to culture yeast from bottle dregs before but for some reason it seemed like a good idea to try tipping the OG sample (100ml of 1.046 blonde ale wort) into the bottle to see what happens.

I don't have a stir plate, flask, or any of the things you're supposed to have so I sanitised the neck of the fullers bottle and some foil, wrapped the top and have been giving it a swirl every few hours when I remember.

Any tips on what to do next - is it crazy to attempt to build this experiment into something I could use in a brew without proper equipment?

There seems to be some froth on the surface already so it does seem to be doing something, just not sure what to do next!

I was thinking leave it a few more days, then make a ~1L DME wort, put that in a 2L sanitised pop bottle and stick an airlock in it?

@Slid has linked my bottle culturing guide which will almost certainly work given the yeast in the bottle is viable as it slowly builds the yeast up. But what you've done should work. What I've done a few times is put the dregs in 200ml of 1.040 of wort then step it up to 1L of 1.040 wort, and this has worked fine in a lower gravity beer wort. I wouldn't go much above 1.040. If you want to make a beer bigger than about 1.040 then I'd advise another step up

 

[SteveH]

Thanks @Slid and @MyQul for the feedback - the culturing guide is exactly what I was looking for and will serve as a great reference for future attempts

This one does seem to be somewhat active so I'll give it a bit longer then see if I can step up to a larger 1.040 starter.

At this point it's a learning exercise for me, but it's pretty exiting as a newbie to see that you can potentially grow pitchable amounts of yeast this way!

 

[SteveH]

Well it appears to be working! Very excited!

Stepped up after about 4 days to 500ml of 1.025 wort and now after another day or two of semi-regular swirling I'm getting a layer of white sediment between swirls.

Thanks for the help :hat:, I guess I'll step it up again to 1L of 1.040 after a couple more days and see if it works in a brew.

 

[MyQul]

Nice job.