I’ve used Wyeast 2001 Urquell Lager yeast many times in the past with great results. Over the last year or two it’s gotten more difficult to find and I lost my slurry collection when my freezer failed a while back so I had to start over.
Wy2001 became available for a short time, or so I’m told, in January so I had my LHBS get me a smack pack to culture up. I made a vitality starter and pitched it to 10 gallons of pilsner last month and had a verry slow start to fermentation as described above in this thread. Took 4 days to get signs of fermentation…
Last week I brewed a bushwick pre pro pilsner, racked 5 gals of my other pils off the urquell cake and just pitched the whole cake to the new pre pro pils. Very lackluster beginning to fermentation even with that seemingly massive overpitch…almost 5 full days before I saw signs of krauesen…
Anyone used the noew limited availability wy2001? Were your results similar to mine?