Cheers from Adelaide South Australia
Hazard14 :



I'm curious how you can say that so definitively, considering Safale S-04 is simply a shelf-table dry version of Whitbread-B, the prototypical modern English ale strain, still the most requested strain from your National Collection of Yeast Cultures archive. Countless commercial breweries use house strains derived of Whitbread-B (possibly St. Austell included, going back to the OP). In fact, many production brewers have even switched to the S-04 version for convenience and consistency. It's a go-to option for many of us homebrewing true-to-style English ales, too.super_simian wrote: ...Stay clear of S04, it's pus.