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 Some yeast descriptions include pictures of their giant colonies. Giant colonies are yeast colonies grown on thick agar which allows for the growth of a much lager colony than what is possible in normal petri dishes. Lager German WLP830 origin: White Labs vial first cultured: April 2008 storage: slant and stab cultures strain origin: Weihenstephan yeast bank W34/70, most commonly used yeast in German lager brewing notes: White Labs yeast strain description: WLP830 WLP800 origin: given to me by a fellow home brewer first cultured: March 2008 storage: slant and stab cultures strain origin: Pilsner Urquell notes: White Labs yeast strain description: WLP800 WY2042 Gian yeast colony 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 WLP833 origin: yeast samples given to me by a fellow home brewer first cultured: April 2008 storage: slant culture strain origin: Brauerei Aying notes: White Labs yeast strain description: WLP833 WY2206 Gian yeast colony WY2206 origin: Activator pack first cultured: March 2007 storage: slant culture strain origin: Weihenstephan yeast bank W206 notes: Wyeast strain description WY2206 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 WY2035 origin: Propagator pack first cultured: November 2010 storage: slant culture, stab culture strain origin: August Schell. notes: Wyeast strain description: WY2035 - American Lager Ale (other than Belgian or Weissbier) German WY1007 Gian yeast colony 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 WY2565 origin: Activator Pack first cultured: May 2007 storage: slant and stab culture strain origin: Weihenstephan W165 notes: Wyeast strain description: - Koelsch British WLP002 Gian yeast colony WLP002 origin: White Labs vial first cultured: 0ctober 2008 storage: slant and stab culture strain origin: Fullers notes: White Labs description: WLP002 WY1084 origin: fellow home brewer first cultured: April 2010 storage: slant and stab culture strain origin: Guinness notes: Wyeast strain description: - Irish Ale American WLP001 Giant yeast colony WLP001 origin: White Labs vial first cultured: unknown storage: slant and stab culture strain origin: Sierra Nevada notes: White Labs description: WLP001 Weissbier 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 Gian yeast colony 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. 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 WLP351-2 origin: given to me from a fellow home brewer first cultured: March 2008 storage: slant culture strain origin: Weihenstephan yeast bank W175, I have not checked if this one hasn't mutated yet notes: White Lab's strain description: WLP351 KLWB origin: cultured from the dregs of a bottle of Koenig Ludwig Weissbier first cultured: November 2009 storage: slant culture strain origin: bottle of Koenig Ludwig Weissbier notes: I don't know yet if this is their primary fermentation strain or a different yeast that is used for bottling. Belgian Hennepin origin: Fellow homebrewer, cultured from a bottle of Hennepin (Brewery Ommegang) first cultured: April 2010 storage: slant culture strain origin: bottle of Hennepin (Brewery Ommegang) notes: not yet used other bugs