Low ester yeast for Scottish Ales

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In a couple weeks I will be brewing my first Scottish Ale be it a 70, 80, or Wee Heavy. I’m not too anal about staying within guidelines, but if I am brewing a certain type of beer I want it to reflect the style accurately. I have been reading about Scottish Ales and learning about the history and one characteristics is that they have little to no ester profile. As of right now I don’t have the ability to keep my beers cool below normal house temps (65f-70f) which would help me eliminate or lower the esters.

My worry is that I get one of the Scottish or Irish yeasts and with the normal fermentation temp I will get too much ester in the beer. I had read it was recommended to use an American Ale yeast that naturally has very little ester profile, but with using this type of yeast will I lose any staple characteristics in the beer I would have normally had using the Scottish or Irish Ale yeasts?

Does anyone recommend a good recipe from this site or another you had great success with?

Looking forward to your responses. Thanks.

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Use Scottish yeast. Just keep a wet t-shirt on the fermenter, with a fan blowing on it. Place the fermenter into a tub of some sort with an inch of water on the bottom, and drape the wet shirt over the fermenter and into the water so it can wick the water up. Keep the fan blowing and keep an inch or two of water in the bottom of the tub at all times. Doing this will reduce your fermentation temperature by 4 to 5 degrees. Ta-da!

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The wee heavy here is excellent, it is now my beer of choice. I also do not have a way to control fermentation temps and my house sits in the same range as yours and I have not noticed any off favors, I use wyeast Scottish ale

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White Labs Edinburgh strain is excellent.

http://www.whitelabs.com/beer/strains_wlp028.html

I don’t brew Scottish ales but have used this yeast for things like British ESB and it is very good.