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" ... produces a clear beer with a nice malty finish"
By: rudrasarrow
Date: Sept. 29, 2008
Beers brewed: Extra Special Bitter
Comments: Just as described this yeast produces a clean beer with a nice malty finish. I made a pretty traditional English bitter and the hops do come through but I did not go crazy with hops and used traditional English hops. With this in mind it produced a fine beer. I fermented around 65 degrees and the beer has a crisp bitterness almost lager-like. If I let the beer warm up though the malt flavors begin to dominate a bit more. This yeast could probably make a nice porter or stout too. Great strain and I look forward to trying some other styles with it.

"Fermentations start frighteningly quickly ... "
By: Scott Walters
Date: Oct. 15, 2007
Beers brewed: IPA
Comments: Started using this, on the recommendation of the local brew supply store, for the warm months here in Arizona where the only place in the house at 78 degrees was the few feet of hall in front of the thermostat, but it became the key component of our signature ale. Fermentations start frighteningly quickly and go aggressively but seems to take extra long to settle out.
After 10 days in the bottle, it mellows out. It's as good warm as cold. It's strongly flavored without being conspicuous (like an English ale or anything Flemish). It's most recognizably beer but it's chewy and malty rather than "clean". Drinking ale made with this yeast, you might wonder when it's from rather than where. I imagine it to taste like beer before it was heavily refined... even more like "pirate ale" than most homebrew, and it tastes that much less like what usually comes in a can.
I adore this yeast. When White Labs stopped stocking it, I spent days calling and searching before I tracked down nfghomebrew.com, who stocks it year-round. They half-joked, "White Labs makes it just for us". The reception to it in a pale ale from casual beer drinkers is always interesting, too -- it has a charisma where people who don't like anything but the blandest American lagers will sip it with interest. It's that likeability that really cemented it as our signature yeast -- it just became known as "that beer you guys brew" by our non-homebrewing friends as they asked for more.
(Editors Note: Any store can stock out-of-season platinum strains or discontinued strains if they order a minimum of 40 vials.)

"Truly a yeast worth trying ... "
By: Tony V.
Date: June 11, 2007
Beers brewed: Dry Irish Stout
Comments: This yeast has a soft bready character that is quite pleasant in beers with toasted or strong roasty flavors. It flocs out well and finished fermentation quickly. Truly a yeast worth trying in a wide range of beer styles.

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