How do I choose a yeast strain for brewing a particular type of beer or lager?
Unfortunately most of the brewing yeast we have, have been received on a confidential basis and the depositors or customers who use the strains do not usually give us much feedback on how the yeast work as regards giving the final product its characteristics. We are therefore unable to give customers details on exactly which strains in the NCYC have been used to brew particular beers. It is however usually possible to get a yeast from the collection which matches the charateristics of an older strain using the ‘Tall Tube Codings’ which are given with most of the strains. Our customers usually use these to select a yeast which they think is suitable for their purposes. It is difficult to predict exactly how a yeast will behave and what the character of the final brew will be, since this tends to vary depending on the other ingredients used and the exact brewing process. We usually suggest that a customer picks one or two yeast which look suitable and try trial brews. The full explanatio
