Brewly b-4 english ale.

[Erik the Anglophile]

As the title reads, I just ordered 2 packs of this yeast and hopefully will have them on friday and can try it in an english brown.
Any Scandinavians here who have tried it? As I understand it is similair to s04 but with a ”clearer” ester profile and none of the 04 sourdough tang.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Anyone with any experience to share?

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Not heard of Brewly. Is it this one... ?

http://www.bulldogbrews.co.uk/products/bulldog-beer-yeast/b4-english-ale-yeast.html

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Not heard of Brewly. Is it this one... ?

http://www.bulldogbrews.co.uk/products/bulldog-beer-yeast/b4-english-ale-yeast.html

https://www.thehomebrewery.eu/brewly-english-ale-yeastThis one, I confused it with bulldogg I think, this one is just called English Ale.
Was intrigued by it as it is appearantly made here in Sweden, and a fair bit cheaper than foreign imported yeast.

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Maybe it's the same as the Bulldog? Seems likely to be re-packaged? With 65-70% attenuation, it sounds like Windsor or Munton's standard yeast. Perhaps. Sorry I can't be any help.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

It is listed as around 80% max attenuation, so likely not windsor.
Brewly seems to be under a company called Jästbolaget, who produce mainly bread yeast but also brewers yeast for scandinavian and north european commercial breweries altough this is the first aviable in smaller scale. So most likely inhouse production. What I have been able to gather is that it resembles s04 as it is developed from the same parent, but has much less of the bad sides of s04.

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Perhaps check it out in a small batch, or split batch. Nothing ventured....

 

[schmurf]

I would be surprised if it wasn't a repack of one of the major companies yeast. But then, I've been surprised in the past and probably will be more times in the future too.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I just got my 2 packs in the mail, gonna brew a northern brown with it that ive done with s04 before and ferment at 19c and see how it goes.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I would be surprised if it wasn't a repack of one of the major companies yeast. But then, I've been surprised in the past and probably will be more times in the future too.

Thing is, it is advertised and marked on the packages as ”made in sweden” wich is highly illegal here if it is not in fact made in sweden

 

[duncan_disorderly]

The Lallemand Verdant IPA yeast has been the best dried yeast in a brown ale, for me, to date. For my tastes, obviously.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

My immediate reaction was that it would be some kind of white-label or rebrand of Bulldog B4 - and the Bulldog range of yeast appears to be a white label version in turn of Mangrove Jacks. So my immediate reaction would be that it's quite likely to be M15 Empire.

Brewly were a British company producing mail-order beer kits that seems to have disappeared in 2016 or so, I don't know how this company relates to that one. But their hardware also looks similar to Bulldog, which is the retail brand of Hambleton Bard.

There's not many producers of dry yeast, which is a pretty specialised process, at best I'd imagine that they're repacking in Sweden with actual production elsewhere. Dry English yeasts are S-33/Windsor for low attenuation, S-04 for middle and Nottingham for high attenuation - and Verdant if you're talking about something that's not been on the market for more than a few months.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

My immediate reaction was that it would be some kind of white-label or rebrand of Bulldog B4 - and the Bulldog range of yeast appears to be a white label version in turn of Mangrove Jacks. So my immediate reaction would be that it's quite likely to be M15 Empire.

Brewly were a British company producing mail-order beer kits that seems to have disappeared in 2016 or so, I don't know how this company relates to that one. But their hardware also looks similar to Bulldog, which is the retail brand of Hambleton Bard.

There's not many producers of dry yeast, which is a pretty specialised process, at best I'd imagine that they're repacking in Sweden with actual production elsewhere. Dry English yeasts are S-33/Windsor for low attenuation, S-04 for middle and Nottingham for high attenuation - and Verdant if you're talking about something that's not been on the market for more than a few months.

That was my thought at first as well, but then it says on the package and on the website that it is made in sweden, wich as said is highly illegal here if it is not in fact manufactured here.
I found a thread on a swedish homebrew forum where someone had emailed thehomebrewey.eu, who operate Brewly as their house brand, and he was told the yeast is made in sweden on contract by a big yeast manufacturer and is definitely not a repack of imported yeast. Again a highly illegal thing to lie about here.
This leads me to think of the company Jästbolaget, who manufacture beer and wine yeast on contract(they actually have 15% of the market for wine yeast for commercial wine production in Europe) and that they make their yeast.
I personally believe this is probably a strain cultivated from the whitbread parentage, so probably similair to s04 but not entirely the same. And it has triggered my inner autist in trying to find out what this yeast actually is.

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Jästbolaget. Good name. And interesting to hear about a yeast producer in Sweden that supplies brewers.

https://www.jastbolaget.se/en/about-jastbolaget/

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Interesting indeed. Hope I get satisfied because being able to get a decent house yeast for under 3 euro per pack sure feels appealing.