Yeast Choice for Imperial Porter?

Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:10 pm

A pro-brewer friend provided a recipe for an imperial porter and suggested the following for the yeast.

"Good attenuating, malt accentuating, low ester producing ale strain. Look at the English & Scottish strains - find one without heavy aroma/estery character."

Can someone suggest a good attenuating, malt accentuating, low ester producing English/Scottish ale yeast strain that would compliment an imperial porter?
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Re: Yeast Choice for Imperial Porter?

Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:41 pm

WLP007

WLP007 Dry English Ale Yeast
Clean, highly flocculent, and highly attenuative yeast. This yeast is similar to WLP002 in flavor profile, but is 10% more attenuative. This eliminates the residual sweetness, and makes the yeast well suited for high gravity ales. It is also reaches terminal gravity quickly. 80% attenuation will be reached even with 10% ABV beers.


see http://www.whitelabs.com/yeast/wlp007-d ... -ale-yeast
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Re: Yeast Choice for Imperial Porter?

Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:16 pm

or WLP028 Edinburgh
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Re: Yeast Choice for Imperial Porter?

Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:26 am

The starting OG is 1.084 and it should finish around 1.015. I've used 007 a bunch with Arrogant Bastards and hadn't though it of for this brew.
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Re: Yeast Choice for Imperial Porter?

Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:27 pm

Wyeast West Yorkshire 1469 if you keep it at the cool end (think 64-66F).
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