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Picked up a 6er of Mad Tom IPA and it's now advertised as unfiltered. Any idea what strain it is?

I would guess chico, (US-05/1056), but could be very wrong.

I'd like to try to harvest it, but I have half a brick of US -05 coming in the grain pickup

My guess is likely s-04.

I'm not sure i could tell the difference between S04 and S05 in a side by side but my guess would be S05 / california

Now i want to do a side by side with these two yeasts...

They centrifuge their beer now and depending on the quality of the centrifuge it may be tough to get a good starter population.

mcgster wrote:I'm not sure i could tell the difference between S04 and S05 in a side by side but my guess would be S05 / california

Now i want to do a side by side with these two yeasts...

They centrifuge their beer now and depending on the quality of the centrifuge it may be tough to get a good starter population.

I find that US-05 gives a cleaner finish and accentuates bitterness more than S-04 which rounds out the bitterness and provides some traditional fruity British esters. The only reason that I can tell the difference is that before I had my conical, I used to split my house IPA fermentation with 5 gallons with 05 and 5 with 04. Otherwise, I'd likely never be able to tell the difference.

That's a great way to do it Jeff! I was thinking about doing the same thing with a 10 gal batch of my next ipa with California and s05


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Jeff, Mike and I talked about doing this with some upcoming beers.