Stout- Yeast

I believe he's very good buddies with Ron Pattinson, if that means anything........

 

Dry London ESB has been my favorite lately for most stouts...great mouth feel and estery counter to the roasted malts (fwiw, I've used US-05, S-04, Windsor, M-03, and 1028)

 

Used wlp005 once that came out good. Want to try thames valley next.

 

Whitbread owned more than a dozen UK breweries at one point. I'm pretty sure that most of them had their own yeast strain.

 

Ron,

Are Wyeast 1098, WLP007 and Fermentis S-04 the exact same Whitbread yeast strain?

Is Wyeast 1099 a different from the above Whitbread yeast strain?

Cheers!

Jack

 

I've absolutely no idea. Sorry.

 

Some interesting information here on the Whitbread yeast strains. There's a lot of back and forth in the comments, but in the main post there is this:

If CFG is Fermentis S-04 (and not S-40 as stated in the Table S1), then it interestingly doesn’t seem to cluster with the other Whitbread yeasts, but rather seems to be close to WLP006 Bedford and WLP013 London.

I won't pretend to be able to follow the science here, but I look forward to learning more about how yeast strains are related in the coming years.