Mangrove Jack's Craft Series Yeast M54 Californian Lager (10g)

I'm a fan of Mangrove Jack's yeasts and this one did not disappoint. Brewed up a California Common, based on Jamil's recipe and it came out great. Expect a long slow ferment out of this one (and if doing a full 5G, I suggest a couple packs of yeast).

I was hoping to make a true lager, and didn't find out until AFTER that this yeast is actually Saccharomyces cerevisiae which is ALE yeast and not lager yeast which is Saccharomyces pastorianus. I finished my fermentation, but had to go out and buy actual lager yeast because I wanted to make a real lager.

The yeast arrived in less than a week as promised, very happy.The yeast itself is 100% viable, the stuff is perking away busily in my fermenter, in a month or so I’ll have a taste. So far so goodThank you!!!Update—- Delicious beer, a bit hazy as I haven’t cold conditioned it yet but hopefully will clear soon. Yeast did not settle out of suspension as well as I’d hoped during fermentation. I usually don’t secondary but may need to in the future with this yeast strain.

I have ordered twice nice now and out of all the packages I have order 2/3 of them have had holes in them. I will find another place to order. I like Mangrove Jack’s Californian Lager.