Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

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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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?

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?

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

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.

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.

OzKev wrote: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?

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

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.