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Very Special Strains – Pure Liquid Yeast
For the Months of October through December, 2007
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We’ve scored a trifecta, fulfilling all three of the goals that inspired creation of the VSS promotion: introducing a new strain from the French side of Flanders; bringing back a strain from our archives by popular demand, and releasing a Proprietary Strain from one of the most popular craft brewed beers in America !
Wyeast Laboratories, Inc. proudly presents:
Fat Tire Ale Yeast
from New Belgium Brewery
Fort Collins, Colorado
Used for brewing Fat Tire Amber Ale by the brewers at New Belgium, who are looking forward to hearing from you at brewer@newbelgium.com.
Like the ageless delight of pedaling a bicycle, Fat Tire Amber Ale’s appeal is in its feat of balance: Toasty malt flavors (sorta’ like biscuits just pulled from the oven) coasting in equilibrium with crisp hoppiness. Delicious stability - in the world of sometimes-precarious beer flavors – is perhaps what prompted one consumer to write “this beer just makes you smile.”
Fat Tire’s depth of flavor, achieved with neither a disproportionate sway toward hops or malts, tandems well with a full spectrum of today’s engaging cuisines.
Fat Tire is so named for the bike trip founding brewer Jeff Lebesch took through Belgium that greatly inspired his homebrewing efforts.
Please visit New Belgium’s website at www.newbelgium.com.
From our archives by popular demand
Wyeast 3864 VSS Canadian/Belgian Ale
Produces mild phenols, which increase with increased fermentation temperatures. Low ester profile with a dry, slightly tart finish. Complex and well-balanced, alcohol tolerant.
Alcohol tolerance: approximately 12% ABV
Flocculation: medium
Apparent attenuation: 75-79%
Temperature range: 65-80°F (18-27°C)
New
Wyeast 3711 VSS French Saison
Produces saison or farmhouse style bières that are highly aromatic with clean, citrus-ester, peppery and spicy notes with no earthiness, and low phenol. This strain enhances the use of spices and aroma hops, and is extremely attenuative, but leaves an unexpected silky and rich mouthfeel in a very dry finished beer.
Alcohol tolerance: 12% ABV
Flocculation: low
Attenuation: 77-83%
Temperature range: 65-77°F (18-25°C)
We are excited to bring you these Very Special Strains, and we welcome your comments. Please feel free to contact us at vss@wyeastlab.com. Let us know what you think of this promotion and what strains you’d like to see offered in the future.
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Posted: November 3rd, 2007 under Beer and wine making, Homebrew Competition.
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