Name that Yeast

[Cols15]

I was on a 4gen BWKO and decided to kill off the yeast I had been using and re-pich with this.
I collected 3gens of low wines (gen 4,5,6) and did a spirit run (pot still) and what I ended up with tasted like neutral.

I now have a WBAB wash down with this yeast to try a double distilled vodka (pot still).

I know there are some yeast nerds amongst us, I was hoping someone could tell me what yeast this is before Youngs put their sticker on it?

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[Andy]

no will will know unfortunately. young's just name the yeast (like white wine, red wine, cider, turbo etc) and never give strain information (as far as i know). Let the guessing game begin!

I think it would be a strain similar to ec1118, or even ec1118. given its all purpose nature.

on another note ur bwko shouldn't taste anything like neutral from a potstill. what did you collect it at?

[Cols15]

Thanks for the reply Andy.

The Youngs yeast on the 4,5,6gen BWKO produced a neutral flavour. I killed off the youngs and pitched us05 for gen 7,8,9 (also added 2 cups of grain) and the BWKO flavour/smell returned.

I didn't measure abv on the strip run but the spirit run went as normal, I have 3lt of 65% neutral tasting BWKO on oak. Gen 7,8,9 combined spirit run yield tasted/smelt like my usual BWKO.
The only difference was the yeaat...

Should I be double or triple pot distilling to produce a decent vodka?

[Andy]

decent vodka and pot still don't really go hand in hand.
others might disagree with me though

[Cols15]

I thought I would give vodka a try with the pot seeing as I don't own any form of reflux still.
I currently have plans to build a bubbler.

Hopefully this pot distilled vodka will be good enough to use in mixers, that's all I'm really after.

[OzKev]

The yeast is Wyeast 1768 English Special Bitter

As above you wont get a good neutral from a pot, but strip a TPW in the pot and then an old second hand still spirits still will get you something very drinkable.

[sp0rk]

The yeast is Wyeast 1768 English Special Bitter

As above you wont get a good neutral from a pot, but strip a TPW in the pot and then an old second hand still spirits still will get you something very drinkable.

Just a dried form of the above?

[OzKev]

Yep, that's what I'm lead to believe. Not sure why they have not released it packaged as such though?

[Cols15]

I bought the yeast cheap a few years ago to brew ginger beer.
I don't know how expensive that strain of wyeast is but I've seen the youngs 100g packs ranging from £2 to £6 on U.K brewing sites.