Averagely Perfect ESB - Poll #13 - Yeast Strain

-> Poll #12 <- determined that Invert Sugar #2 will join the fermentables.

This poll will select a yeast strain, before we return to the grain bill to determine proportions. I have filled in equivalent strains where I was reasonably confident. If you believe there's a wrong equivalent or a missing equivalent, beermail me the evidence. If its' convincing, I'll ask the mods to amend the choices. To keep this one to a single poll, I did not list any non English/Irish strains. But you can write them in. I also excluded seasonal strains.

Straight plurality wins this poll. If your first choice is losing badly, consider jumping to a similar choice that has more votes if you can't stand the choice that is leading.

I recommend you think about this in terms of not only your personal preferences, but also in the context of the ABV and Final Gravity (and thus the attenuation) already selected, fermentables already selected, and potential proportions for those fermentables that me be knocking at your brain. We have yet to determine proportions of fermentables or recommended mash temperatures/times, but it may be time to start thinking about wort fermentability as you're selecting a yeast strain. Or perhaps not, since there are still some reasonably powerful control knobs left.

This poll will be open for 48 hours.

If you have issues with or suggestions for methodologies used in this project, please send them via beermail. Let's keep the threads themselves on topic to the question at hand and not about how you would have asked the question differently.

The Averagely Perfect ESB Recipe so far...

Target ABV: 5.4%
OG: 1.053
FG: 1.012 (77.4% Apparent Attenuation)
Yeast: TBD (this poll)

Grain Bill (proportions TBD):
---Maris Otter
---English Crystal Malt (~55L)
---English Dark Crystal (~80L)
---Invert Sugar #2

 

Normally I only exclude ingredients if they are truly unavailable. Wyeast yeast is available to everyone in the continental USA, at least. Mail order may not be cheap (if you're only ordering yeast). But it's possible. Hell, if we end up with a Wyeast only strain, and anyone in the contiguous states wants to brew this recipe and really can't afford the shipping for yeast, they can beermail me and I'll send it to them.

 

If you want a dry strain that's equivalent to something already listed, vote for that, and beermail me the information per the instructions if you think it should be listed as an equivalent. If you want a dry yeast strain that has no equivalent, write it in.

 

A suggestion. And it's only a suggestion, not a request... The way the voting seem to be going, those who voted for something other than Wyeast 1469 or Wyeast 1968 / WLP002 may want to consider jumping to their preference between those two if they want to influence the outcome. I'm not planning a runoff unless there's a tie.

The percentage thresholds from some of the other polls are designed to whittle down the choices when there are possibly multiple ingredients getting in, so that people can see them in increasingly better contexts. Since there will only be one yeast strain, and the choices are unique, it's a plurality poll.