Chris-x1 wrote:Bribie wrote:I used Ringwood yeast, which is an old Yorkshire strain and is great for this brew provided you ferment it cool
Ringwood brewery yeast came from the Hull brewery which originally came from Yorkshire , Wyeast/White Labs Ringwood yeast definately
isn't 
After being briefly disgruntled that someone had slandered the King of Yeasts, I thought "well, how do we really know?" and did some digging around for information, and on my Aussie forum someone came up with an interesting link about which breweries, if any, the well known liquid yeasts come from. The report comes from a guy at BJCP (the home brew judging guideline mob in the USA) so has a fair bit of authority.
http://www.mrmalty.com/yeast.htm and it seems that the Wyeast Ringwood yeast 1187 came originally from a Swedish brewery
whilst the WhiteLabs equivalent WLP005 comes from the Ringwood Brewery. Anyway rather than taking the information for gospel I've emailed Wyeast for further information.
On topic for this discussion the good news is that for TTL, the Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire Bitter reportedly does come from Timothy Taylor. Its a beautiful yeast but as it's been unavailable that's why I've been using Ringwood.
Unfortunately 1498 is out of stock
in Australia as it's an intermittent special release, hope you are more fortunate in the UK.
. Have you used 1469? It also rises up into a head that looks like a pile of popcorn, and I thrashed it down into the wort twice a day. Being of an age I remember the Hull "Northern Breweries" beer that I used to drink in Scarborough (I'm a Geordie) on holiday in my 20s. Beautiful beer although filtered. Isn't it ironic that Hull was taken over and shut down by Mansfield, who were taken over by Marston, and now Marston have taken over Ringwood as well and heloooo here's that old yeast again 