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Offline narcout

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Coopers Dry Yeast
« on: February 20, 2015, 10:36:28 am »
Does anyone know if Coopers Dry Ale Yeast is the same yeast the brewery uses or if there is a Wyeast or White Labs equivalent of the yeast used by the brewery?

I'd like to brew something similar to Coopers Best Extra Sparkling Ale.

My recollection is that there is a fair amount of yeast in the bottles that could be cultured, but they aren't all that easy to find (at least not here).
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Re: Coopers Dry Yeast
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2015, 12:12:47 pm »
They are not the same yeasts.  Here is a link to more information on the yeasts.
https://www.coopers.com.au/coopers-forum/topic/7290/?page=1
Didn't get far enough in Coopers site for equivalent yeast information.

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Re: Coopers Dry Yeast
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2015, 12:45:27 pm »
there was an article in zymurgy a few months back on that brew. the author cultured from the bottles. I'm not sure you can get the yeast in any other way.
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Re: Coopers Dry Yeast
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2015, 01:15:01 pm »
They are not the same yeasts.  Here is a link to more information on the yeasts.
https://www.coopers.com.au/coopers-forum/topic/7290/?page=1

Cool, thank you.

there was an article in zymurgy a few months back on that brew. the author cultured from the bottles. I'm not sure you can get the yeast in any other way.

I haven't tried looking through the back catalog of electronic Zymurgies.  I'll see if I can find the article, thanks. 

I guess I'll keep my eye out for some Coopers, pretty sure I saw their pale ale at Whole Foods once.
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Re: Coopers Dry Yeast
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2015, 02:50:20 pm »
You may want to try/consider White Labs WLP009 Australian Ale Yeast.  Here's a link:    http://www.whitelabs.com/yeast/wlp009-australian-ale-yeast
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Re: Coopers Dry Yeast
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2015, 03:06:40 pm »
I use wlp009 for my sparkling ale.
Only available in the spring though.
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