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I've got a new brew shop on the ride home from work and they are pretty cheap as well. Some of the chains in their stores carry safale yeasts but this one only has its brewcellar range of yeast and each one is supposed to be their version or an equivalent of a safale yeast from that range.

I needed a yeast for my wassa's choc porter. Basically their version of S04.

The guy pointed me towards the English ale yeast. After doing some reading on them I think i should of been pointed towards the premium ale yeast instead. The description for the two goes

English ale yeast. Will leave a relatively high FG. Produces a stong tasting bitter beer, stout, weizen and heffe weizien. Best temp 18-22

Premium ale yeat. A fast top fermenting english ale yeast. Very compact sediment for high beer clarity, sedimentation high. Best temp 18-22.

Question.

A yeast that says delivers a relatively high FG, what sort of number effect are we talking about when talking about our normal estimated FG using the caluculators and ingredients used?

I pitched it on Sunday morning and it started up real quickly. It kept that up for a few days and its already caught up to the leffe blonde clone put in a week earlier in the fermenter next to it at the same temp in which I used safale T58.

Hey,

I've previously used their American Ale yeast (which apparently is the same as Safale US-05) and it came out OK. Can't remember what I made with it but from memory it worked fine.

With regard to the FG, that would be dependant on the % attenuation the yeast provides (i.e. how completely the sugars are fermented). Most yeast suppliers will document the attenuation figures so you can compare. I don't know how it relates to the FG you get from the calculations, but I assume that would be based on an assumed attenuation level anyway.

Cheers,

Tim

btw - hope your Leffe is coming along well. Mine's been in primary for nearly 2 weeks so I will probably rack it soon.

Well I'm about to use their "Premium Ale yeast" for a quick visitor's special...CPA +BE2. with Glacier pellets. Will get the whole shebang up tomorrow.
I'll know what their yeast is like in a couple of weeks.
I agree with you about their pricing...much cheaper than other HBS.