What is your favorite yeast for cider

[BadgerBrigade]

Let's make this thread three parter shall we:

#1 •What is your favorite yeast to use when making cider?

#2 • what is your number two choice?

#3 •What is a yeast that you do NOT suggest OR had bad experiences with

 

[hunter_le five]

#1 - Nottingham

#2 - WY3068

#3 - red star champagne

Obviously I like ale yeasts....

I'm not saying that #3 is bad, but my cider turned out terrible. Granted, that was likely more attributable to the fact that I was a complete noob at the time.

 

[Chris_Run]

White Labs English Cider or spontaneous... Not a fan of champagne yeast personally. Have been wanting to experiment with adding brettanomyces during the secondary for pitched yeast cider since I think this is a flavor factor in the spontaneously fermented ciders...