>It is perfectly OK to use a blend of yeast when you ferment. >In fact, Wyeast actually sells a number of blends including >1087 Ale blend, and 2178 Lager blend. Wouldn't this be a blend of a few lager yeasts and a few ale yeasts separate from each other ie pure lager or pure ale, not ale & lager mixed ? If you wanted to >blend ale and lager yeast it wont hurt anything although one >strain (the one best suited to your temp, gravity, etc.) might >likely win-out and out compete the other. My guess is that the lager yeast will produce high levels of maleic acid which gives the beer a strong flavour of green apples. How strong is hard to say, it depends on how active the yeasts are relative to each other. I fermented a lager on my balcony in mid december and had to bring it in when the temp dropped to -9C and let it ferment the last sugar indoors. Indoors fermentation began at 1.018 with a FG of 1.010. If my memory serves me right OG for the batch was somewhere around 1.040-45. The final product tasted somewhat like a blend of apple cider and lager beer. It took some 200g/l of raspberries to mask the apple taste and even then it was noted through the raspberry taste. Angus MacIomhair with his 0,18 SEK _____________________________________________________________ Get YourName@iamawitch.com email Today! Visit http://freemail.iamawitch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing the words "unsubscribe hist-brewing" (or unsubscribe hist-brewing-digest, if you get the digest.) To contact a human about problems, send mail to owner-hist-brewing@pbm.com