London Fog yeast
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I've only read about that being used on American forums like HBT so you might want to have a mooch their
Cheers, just spotted that. Looks like it's a decent punt for an NEIPA.... which is good, as I brewed with it last weekend. I'll report back on how it goes.
3.6 Kg M/O
0.6 Kg Wheat malt
0.2 Kg Carapils
0.5 Kg Oats
40g Fuggles 60mins
50g Simcoe 0min steep
50g Eukanot 0min steep
London Fog WLP066 yeast with 1L starter (recommended by WL for > 1.056 beers)
Water profile target
Ca 75ppm, Mg 25ppm, Na 30ppm, SO4 100ppm, Cl 150ppm, HCO3 45ppm.
4ml of Citric acid in the mash, which took me down to 5.1 pH (bit lower than expected!)
Planning to DH with Cryo versions of Simcoe and Eukanot....
It's not taken off like a rocket, but is steady. Will report back.
As promised, here's my update on the yeast...
It recommended a starter, which I created the night before. Began at 1.054 and settled at 1.011, added Ekuanot cryo hops for 3days DH then cold crashed and burst carbed.
It said it should finish higher than a normal ale yeast to leave some residual sweetness (which is good for the NEIPA style!). I can't tell if the 1.011 is from the yeast or the oats giving more body... but the taste was great. Real sweet flavour of tropical juice and pineapple nose. The sweetness must be from the yeast. The haze is on the mark as well, as is the body. Hard to say how much of this is down to the yeast as I've also used cryo hops for the first time, so not sure how much is a factor this plays versus the yeast... but certainly the sweetness and body had improved from the last time I made this beer.
I think this may be my new strain for this style. Would recommend.
It recommended a starter, which I created the night before. Began at 1.054 and settled at 1.011, added Ekuanot cryo hops for 3days DH then cold crashed and burst carbed.
It said it should finish higher than a normal ale yeast to leave some residual sweetness (which is good for the NEIPA style!). I can't tell if the 1.011 is from the yeast or the oats giving more body... but the taste was great. Real sweet flavour of tropical juice and pineapple nose. The sweetness must be from the yeast. The haze is on the mark as well, as is the body. Hard to say how much of this is down to the yeast as I've also used cryo hops for the first time, so not sure how much is a factor this plays versus the yeast... but certainly the sweetness and body had improved from the last time I made this beer.
I think this may be my new strain for this style. Would recommend.
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Update for anyone interested... I washed this yeast and reused in a new NEIPA. Surprisingly it was a really low 1.007 FG. Resulted in quite a dry finish, which I wasn't expecting... No sign of infection, and no real reason I can think to why it would drop lower and lose the sweetness.
Is anyone with a bit of yeast knowledge able to shed some light on this...?
Is anyone with a bit of yeast knowledge able to shed some light on this...?
