Craft Series Yeast

[guypettigrew]

Anyone tried the Mangrove Jacks craft series dried yeasts yet?

There are two in my brew room. M07 and M79. Both bought for emergency use if my harvested Whitelabs fail.

Guy

[Piscator]

I've used the Burton a couple of times - nothing too exciting to be honest, I've made far better beers with SO4.
I found it yeasty and slow to clear and needed a long time in the bottle to mature.

Not one I'll bother with again.

[ArmChair]

Ive used most of them.
US West Coast is now my go to yeast instead of S04.

The Burton was slow at getting going for me, took around 36 hours.
Ive been impressed with them so far. Ive heard the lager ones slow at going aswel.

[hophit]

Could any of the people from the thread below report back on the outcomes from these yeasts?
I'd be really interested to hear how any of them compare to US05.

[hophit]

Sorry this one viewtopic.php?f=12&t=59409

[ferry george]

I've tried their Belgian yeast and it made a smashing wheat beer, bought from Morley homebrew shop.

[leedsbrew]

I've used a few of these now and have the rest in the fridge to try. The 1st thing I would say is definitely rehydrate these yeasts. I have used the Burton a couple of times now and it performs much better when correctly rehydrated.

The M07 British ale yeast has made a fantastic dark strong cask style bitter, that took no time to clear and was tasting wicked 2 weeks from brew day, and that's with a 6% ale. See thisthread.

The west coast is also a good yeast and will ferment like a rocket (again rehydrate)

In thisthread, I initially had a poor opinion of the M79. However, given a bit of time and cold it cleared out and produced a good beer. One thing I did come to realise as well was that I was comparing it to S04 IMHO they are two different beasts, and so I should have looked at recipe formulation differently. This yeast will attenuate more than SO4 (10% more in my use but YMMV). It then does strip some of the malt body away with it, but mash adjustment and grist formulation can account for that. I'd liken it to WLP007, not exactly the same strain but a drier British ale yeast that will help bring out the hops without being totally neutral of fermentation character.

I've still got the rest to try, but haven't got round to it yet.

THIS PDF has some more information on the individual strains and the series as a whole.

Hope that helps

LB

[Piscator]

LB - was the Burton yeast you had like SO4 in appearance when you opened it?
Mine was in uneven sized clumpy "gritty" looking bits rather than the even particle size you see with Nottingham or SO4.

Wondered if this was the norm or if I had a dodgy batch.

Cheers
Steve

[leedsbrew]

er, I remember it looking just like most other dried yeasts. Not clumpy!

[Piscator]

er, I remember it looking just like most other dried yeasts. Not clumpy!

Hmmmmmm maybe I had a duff batch then - perhaps I'll persevere end try again.

Cheers
Steve