Culturing up some Ommegang yeast - few q's.

[Brandon]

Yeast nutrient is a good idea with any yeast, but WLP565 is known to require higher levels of nutrients than many other strains. BTW, I think WLP565 is a piece of shit yeast. I've yet to meet a home or pro brewer that's been able to get decent attenuation with that strain alone. I've had a few saisons that were done with WLP566 and even WLP530 that were pretty awesome, IMO, not to mention had the requisite dryness.

Yeah I think it is damn near impossible to ferment with that strain alone. Pretty much everyone I know ends up using the 565 for a few days then adds some dry yeast or some wine yeast. I tasted one that someone had used Chardonnay yeast WLP730 as the finishing yeast and it was wonderful.

[Mylo]

I have no idea of the cell counts in the bottle, but I hope I got at least 7-10 billion cells into the starter. Regardless, another concern of mine now in hindsight is that, it looks like the two hennepin's were brewed in Belgium, through Duval, and not from the Cooperstown brewery (plainly stated on the label) .... but during that interview, he also talked about how they did do some of the brewing in Belgium when things were tight in Cooperstown.

Are you sure that the label states that the Hennepin was brewed in Belgium? The ownership of Ommegang by Duvel is old news. But I was under the impression that Ommegang would continue to be brewed in Cooperstown. I find it hard to believe that they would brew one or more of their flagship styles in Belgium - and then ship them here.


Mylo

[bklynbrewer]

Thanks for the info on your fermentation schedule.

On the show last year when they had the Brewmaster in, he said they had run into some problems with a corking machine and could not get spare parts quickly enough so they had Duvel brew some of there beers in belgium and ship them over. I don't remember exactly which ones, but he made it seem like they would continue this arrangement as they expanded production. Randy also said that while he could taste some differences he doubted that anyone else could.

[ApresSkiBrewer]

Bklyn, that was what I remembered from that interview as well.... also combined with the inconsistency on the labels I was only mildly curious, and not really even that concerned.

[bklynbrewer]

I had a 12 hour drive last week and happened to listen to that episode, no other way I would have known.