I recently bought a tube of WLP810 with plans to make a smallish starter (a liter or two), use that yeast to make a Cal Common fermented at 65F, then use the yeast cake from that to repitch into series of VMO type lagers fermented at 48F. Hopefully this will maximize my beer production and minimize my starter production!

Then I'm happily listening to last week's archive and I hear a papal edict that WLP810 is too esthery for lagers! Ack!

Of course, I will be trying this course of action because I am a homebrewer and experimenting is part of the code, but I'd like to know - I know it is esthery in the 60s, but is it the same at lower temps? No temp was mentioned in the show.

I brewed a CAP and split the batch One with bock yeast at 48F and the other w/ SF Lager yeast at 54F and you could really tell the difference. The SF being alot more estery. Not overly so that it was bad, but in a side by side, it was evident.