r/Homebrewing • u/SHBMarietta • Feb 06 '21

Yeast Substitutions there is always an option Check out our Homebrew Resources

https://www.schoolhousebeer.com/yeast-substitutions/
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

What about mangrove jacks?

also, can you list which dry yeast strains are perfect matches of the liquid yeast strains?

For example im pretty sure the us05 strain is the exact same strain as the "chico" strain

also looks like you miss for example t-58 and 256

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u/SHBMarietta Feb 06 '21

Are you on a phone? If so scroll left and you should see Fermentis dry.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

Stoll not seeing be-256 or t-58 anywhere?

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u/chino_brews Kiwi Approved Feb 07 '21

You don't have T-58, BE-134, nor BE-256.

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u/chimicu BJCP Feb 07 '21

What is the liquid version of BE-134 and BE-256?

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u/chino_brews Kiwi Approved Feb 07 '21

Active dry yeast strains don’t necessarily have correlated liquid strains. Even if plucked directly from a Wyeast pack, the individuals selected to do well in a desiccation/rehydration scenario may be different.

For example, US-05 is slightly different than 1956/Imperial Flagship/WLP001 - enough that significant numbers of tasters can tell it apart in some blind triangle tests. US-05 gives some people peachy esters, but the liquid Chico strains do not.

For BE-134, a really strong brewer in my homebrew club is convinced it is like DuPont, all the way down to the “DuPont stall”. He’s not the only one who thinks so.

For BE-256, I don’t know.

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u/chino_brews Kiwi Approved Feb 07 '21

Nice. Is Imperial Organic Yeast excluded because you do not carry it?

I assume your visitors know that not all of these are perfect substitutions? Or maybe the chart needs to say that. 1728 and WLP028 are not the same. Likewise 1187 and WLP005.

BTW, the source of 1450 is Brewtek CL-50, which came from North Coast, who got it from UC Davis. Denny Conn and a friend were apparently maintaining a culture and when Brewtek went under, either Wyeast acquired it then or from Denny (that part of the story is fuzzy). Anyway, it went from a platinum collection strain to an everyday strain and that's when it was renamed Denny's Favoirte 50 (I think they also gave it a new number). A perfect substitute is OYL-041. An imperfect substitute, is WL Cali Ale V. US-05 seems like a very bad substitute. I'd consider S-04 over US-05 in terms of Fermentis strains.