What is interesting to me is that originally we were worried we might only hit about 50% success rate. I was telling Tasty that we needed to hit 80% if we wanted people to not get annoyed with the show.

Think of it this way. You're all jazzed to brew a clone of something. You go to the site and download the CYBI episode. Listen to the thing. And then find out it is a miss 50% of the time. Dang, can't these guys clone these things? We'd have to change the name to Can You Maybe Brew It?

So I was freaked out about not hitting 80%. It turned out that we had a lot of early success, but I see some misses in our future as we go for some of the tougher clones. I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up at 80% over the long haul.

Of course, we'll keep working on every beer until we clone it. We're not just going to say we can't. We'll freakin do it!

Mitch said they use a proprietary yeast, which they get from White Labs. The guys said they used WLP007, or you could also use 1098 from Wyeast. Mitch also said they ferment at 72F, the guys did 67F first, and said it needed bumped up to 69F. (Note: All these notes were from the original show).

HTH