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I got my hands on 4 packs of this yeast to brew a Pilsner with. Anyone here have much experience with temps, lag time, etc on this yeast?...seems to be pretty elusive in the homebrewing world so I cant find much info.

Some folks, Dan Listermann included, say very good things about it, and there were some discussions on it over at brewboard.com.

Edit: Totally wrong here. Deleted.

Brandon wrote:I got my hands on 4 packs of this yeast to brew a Pilsner with. Anyone here have much experience with temps, lag time, etc on this yeast?...seems to be pretty elusive in the homebrewing world so I cant find much info.

I used two packs on a Rauchbier that I made about 3 weeks ago. Obviously I can't say much for the taste since it's just got kegged last week. The lag time was around 1.5 days. The idea temp listed on the manufacturers website was 53degrees F.
I did a D-rest at 63F. That's the info that I have hope it helps.

My basis for trying it was a post on the Northern Brewer website where Denny Conn was singing its praises, saying its pretty much the way to go for dry lager yeast. I got mine from American Brewmaster.

I've used it a few times, the best results have been to pitch 24gm at 10*C and leave it for at least 2 1/2 to 3 weeks, chill down to 2*C for another 5 days or so and keg, i don't do secondary, obviously extended lagering helps but i've drank it at 2 weeks and it's been fine, imho.

i made JZ's Schwarzbier with this yeast and it was one of my best beers to date

cheers

Shed

Just curious. When people are using dry lager yeast, are you rehydrating the yeast in cold water (55 or so) so that you are not pitching warm rehydrated yeast into a cooled wort. Or are people just pitching on top of the wort, without rehydrating? The only reason I ask is, because a couple years ago I tried S-23 lager yeast rehydrated, and pitched into a cool wort (52 or so). I didn't see fermentation for over 30 hrs. While the beer fermented down to where it was supposed to, I was not super impressed with this strain's results. So much so, that I vowed to never use any dry yeast for my lagers again (and haven't with much better results). I love the US-05 and S-04. I even like to work with the T-58 and have brewed award winning tripels with it! So you dry lager yeast users, how are you dealing with the pitching?