s-189 Dry Lager Yeast

[Brandon]

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.

[andy77]

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

[andy77]

Edit: Totally wrong here. Deleted.

[yellowthere]

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.

[yellowthere]

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.

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[Shed Brewer]

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

[brewinhard]

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?