Do you have access to most White Labs strains, or just a few? I haven't used 023, but 005 and 013 would fit the bill and are typically easy to find. There's always the fallback of co-pitching Windsor + Nottingham (or some other clean/attenuative dry strain)
My next 10 gallon batch of mild next month, which will be split between two fermenters, will receive WY1318 London Ale III and WY1187 Ringwood. These are both great English ale yeasts, although they do not have the strong stone fruit esters of WY1469. I will then use the yeast cakes to make Baltic porter.
i definitely want some stone fruit esters, tbh i was planning a sort of dubbelesque grist and OG but would use WY1469.
i believe WY1318 equals WLP013. i tried WLP013 before and enjoyed it, its good that i have data points on it. i might, definitely got the oak esters and a malty perception from it
i heard 005 is finnicky, but have heard good and bad things about them. i
im doing windsor/bry97 copitch in about a week on a porter and ill see if i like it. the homebrew shop tht had wy1469 said to email them again soon and see if they got it back in, so theres still a chance. if so i hope to keep some samples of it around and save it.