WLP076 Albion Ale Yeast

[jtejedor]

Surprised no one has started a thread about this. Apparently this is a new strain for the white labs platinum program. Googling a bit I imagine this is probably the yeast that the New Albion brewery used to use and was also just used in a collaboration beer that russian river is releasing soon. So anyone go far back enough to have tried new albion beer? Can't find any info on it yet on white labs site as far as stats.

 

[tagz]

Sam Adams is releasing a small run of New Albion Ale this month. Not sure if they use the original yeast... I would assume they do since it is such a simple beer, I think it would be important to the character. NAA is a light 2row/cascade smash. There's a recipe for it in the last BYO and there was a recent podcast about the release on Basic Brewing Radio.