Best Bottled Conditioned Beer for Yeast

[confounded]

Hi Guys,

I have tried searching the yeast section and found the odd recommendation for using a bottle conditioned beer to make a yeast starter. Is there a generally accepted list of the best bottled beers to use if you want to obtain the primary yeast, or can someone recomend their favourite?

[Eadweard]

My current favourite is Summer Lightning.

[Dennis King]

Worthington white shield if you can find it.

[J_P]

I've had good results with Brakspear and Fullers and Chris has cultured the worthington strain from white shield.

[confounded]

I've had good results with Brakspear and Fullers and Chris has cultured the worthington strain from white shield.

Thanks Guys.

I nearly went for the Fullers 1845 today when in Tesco's (they have a 3 for 2 offer) but did not want to buy before researching. Is this the Fullers you meant?

[J_P]

The very same

[Mitchamitri]

Co-op own brand freeminer beers are live.

[simple one]

Judging by the amount in there and its loseness (it doesnt have that lager yeast filmy firmness), I would have said primary. But I dont really rate the beer thats in there with the yeast.

[Northern Brewer]

At least I'm not the only one reading about beer at 5.30 AM Simple One

Here's another big fan of Hop Back yeast (Summer Lightning), which I have now used on over a dozen brews. It takes about 14 days to fully attenuate but apart from that it's a lovely yeast. I usually repitch about 1/3 of the previous brew's slurry, drop it after 14 hours, then leave it to do its thing. The resulting beer seems to mature much quicker than with the likes of SO4.

[simple one]

Its the evening here!

[WishboneBrewery]

anyone tried a 'Coniston Bluebird bitter'?

[mentaldental]

Co-op own brand freeminer beers are live.

I am pretty sure that this is a bottling strain. Read the label, which seems to suggest this. I grew it up on a stir-plate but as soon as I switched the stirring off it fell out of solution. Very, very flocculant I would say. But I think it would be rubbish as a primary strain.

[simple one]

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[alefric]

I've produced quite a number of beers with recovered Hopback yeast.....all good but those made with yeast from Crop Circle seem to be better than those from SL could be just a coincidence though.

Andrew

[RabMaxwell]

Hop-back yeast is lovely only problem is me & a few others can't get it to attenuate fully.I will probably try it again in the future though but might try mashing at 62-63 oc ish & see if i can get a little more attenuation On another note sampling a pale ale made with Brewlabs Themes valley 3 Yeast the beer is only a week from the start of fermentation wen't from 1.050 to 1.012 in four day's kegged it last night it's tasting lovely although it's young.Making 120 litres of Bitter today with some of the slurry this is a lovely yeast give it a go.

( Pale Ale kegged last night with a little Isinglass )