Yeast Bank contents

This is a list of the current contents of the yeast bank I'm maintaining. It is mostly a reference for fellow club members. The strain origins are taken from Kristen England's yeast comparison chart hosted at mrmalty.com Lager German S34/70 origin: pack of fermentis S34/70 dry yeast first cultured: September 2008 storage: slant culture strain origin: W34/70, (based in name), most commonly used yeast in German lager brewing notes: Fermentis data sheet for S34/70 WY2042 origin: yeast samples given to me by a fellow home brewer first cultured: April 2008 storage: slant culture strain origin: Miller via Carlsberg notes: Wyeast strain description WY2042 - Danisch Lager American WY2007 origin: Activator pack first cultured: April 2007 storage: slant culture strain origin: Budweiser, Anheuser Bush. I'm fairly confident that this is the AB strain after seeing a paper from Charlie Bamforth that used this strain (WY2007). He seems to be doing a lot of work with and for AB. notes: Wyeast strain description: WY2007 - Pilsen Lager Ale (other than Belgian or Weissbier) German WY1007 origin: Activator Pack first cultured: December 2006 storage: slant and stab culture strain origin: Zum Uerige, Altbier brewery in Duesseldorf (Germany). notes: Wyeast strain description: WY1007 - German Ale British WLP002 origin: White Labs vial first cultured: 0ctober 2008 storage: slant and stab culture strain origin: Fullers notes: White Labs description: WLP002 American Weissbier (other than Ale or Belgian) WLP300 origin: 6 month old While Labs vial first cultured: February 2007 storage: slant and stab culture strain origin: yeast bank Weihenstephan: W68 notes: White Labs description: WLP300 WY3068 origin: activator pack first cultured: May 2008 storage: slant culture strain origin: yeast bank Weihenstephan: W68, the most popular Weissbier yeast in Germany notes: Wyeast's description WY3068 - Weihenstephan Weizen. WY3056 origin: Activator Pack first cultured: September 2007 storage: slant culture strain origin: blend of yeast strains notes: Wyeast's description WY3056 - Bavarian Wheat Blend, Note that the origin of this strain was a blend, but since a single cell has been isolated the yeast strain in the yeast bank can be any of the strains in that blend. WLP351-1 origin: old While Labs vial first cultured: September 2006 storage: slant and stab culture strain origin: Weihenstephan yeast bank W175, has likely mutated from that strain notes: This strain is behaving quite odd. If ferments way past the attenuation that other strains see as their limit of attenuation and it shows very poor head retention. It does however produce a nice strong clove aroma. Here is a blog entry mentioning this strain: Weissbier Experiment - Different yeasts Belgian (other than Weissbier or Ale) other bugs