Conan yeast - observations so far

[barkar]

Sorry must have been one of the luckier ones with this one,Initially i made a big starter circa 3.5 - 4 litres, it went off like the clappers in a 42 litre brew @ 20 c, i saved the majority of the trub and made 2*2.5 litre starters this time for 2*40 litre batches which started low and seems to have kick in both cases in less than 8 hours temp is shed temp currently about 15 - 16c dont know if it will fart out half way through in the second generation sure will see , the mango and peach flavours dont seem as strong as previous - might be due to dead yeast/crud in from the original brew

[Taf]

Still nothing last night, or this morning, so hit it with the Notty. Will be interesting to see how it turns out.

[Hop Bomb]

Not a kick out of my starter but some of the slants are showing signs of growth.

[DEMPSEY]

Starter I made 6 days ago is moving very slowly.

[imark]

Fermented my current one at 18C and it's dropped 50pts in 7 days. only a few more points to go. This was third generation by the way.

[Hop Bomb]

You can have trub from my brew. It took off like a rocket. Made sure it was kept warm though.

Trade you a vial of sourdough starter for a vial of Conan trub?

[Rossa]

The beer I made with Conan was a citra fuggles mix. Does taste great.

[delzep]

You can have trub from my brew. It took off like a rocket. Made sure it was kept warm though.

What that from my yeast?

[DrowningManatee]

Ive dont two brews with this yeast now: a 'C' hop IPA and a 'simcoe' BIPA. I just poured the BIPA wort onto the trub from IPA. Both had no problems and took off fairly fast (10days estimate). No starter for IPA, and Ive now harcested the yeast from the BIPA and have it in the fridge.

I was getting peachy notes from the fermenter but not so much in the beer. Im thinking I shoulda cold crashed it to stop it cleaning up any esters, or maybe shoulda underpitched like people were saying.

It made lovely beer, just coulda had a stronger character.

[johnrm]

@DM, Did you have one of the original packs?
When did you first use it?
Maybe its a timing thing.

[nigel_c]

I did a black ipa with the Conan yeast. Took about a month to finish fermenting out. Down to 1.012 I think it was. Not happy with it at all. So we very strange tastes. I have it sitting back in a fermenter off all yeast and hops and hopefully it will clean up. Will take a sample later and report the flavors a little better. I can see this batch being ditched unfortunitatly unless there is some serious cleanup. Might drop in some isinglass and see if it helps.

[irish_goat]

I did a black ipa with the Conan yeast. Took about a month to finish fermenting out. Down to 1.012 I think it was. Not happy with it at all. So we very strange tastes. I have it sitting back in a fermenter off all yeast and hops and hopefully it will clean up. Will take a sample later and report the flavors a little better. I can see this batch being ditched unfortunitatly unless there is some serious cleanup. Might drop in some isinglass and see if it helps.

Save a bottle or two for tastings at least.

[nigel_c]

Haven't completely given up on it yet. After a month im commuted to getting something out of it.

[DrowningManatee]

@john rm - One o the original ones, yea. I had it in the fridge about a month before i used it, just pitched straight from the pack. Just lucky with the pack I suppose. I had a brewbelt halfway up the fermenter as I dont think we'd got heating at that stage so was probably fermented around 19/20ish?

[Hop Bomb]

ITS ALIVE!!!



6 days after I pitched 1/4 of my pack to a starter its chugging along. Nothing for the first two days at room temp 12c. I threw the stir plate into the ferm fridge with the slants at 24c for a couple of days & both took off. So I guess my very slow start was down to temp being too low. Its out of the ferm fridge now as Ive no room but its still chugging away.

All but 1 of my slants grew & two of them have isolated colonies well away from the streaks so Il be able to slant a pure strain from there. Gimme a few weeks & Il have a bunch of these ready for people who missed out or had a false start with their pack.