Anyone experience with Bulldog B19 Belgian Trapix yeast?

[chthon]

I have bought six dry abbey beer yeasts, but Bulldog's B19 has the least information. Anyone used it already, and what results did you have?

 

[Oneflewover]

I haven't used B19, but have used the steam lager B23 and really liked it. I also found very little about the bulldog yeasts when I researched them. Would be interested to learn how you get on with this one.

 

[dad_of_jon]

bulldog comes from hambilton bard.... you can ring them up and ask for further info on the yeast.

http://www.bulldogbrews.co.uk/products/bulldog-beer-yeast/b19-belgian-trapix-beer-yeast.html

I spoke to a helpful chap there because there were no re-hydration instructions. He said they don't put them on the website because some numpties used boiled water and killed the yeast but he did confirm 30-35 to re-hydrate would be fine - which in in line with MJ's instructions.

I did a 7.2% abbeyness with it. I liked it

 

[chthon]

I will add some experiences. I brewed two beers with it, one a 6.6% ABV blond beer, and a tripel at 8%. Very nice results. I have pitched them at 0,75 pitch rate. Fermentation temperature started above 20° C, but this is not a problem for this yeast. I don't detect any off tastes (but that could also be because I use open fermentation).

For the ABV, the real ABV of both beers is actually 6.1%, and 7.5% to keep within the limits for the yeast. The extra 0.5% is due to the carbonation sugar.

The first beer was all malt, and I got an attenuation of 77%. The second contained 18% sugar, and I got an attenuation of 82%.

In both cases I also created a starter of 0,5l, 1.040 gravity, with half a packet or 5 grams of yeast.