White Labs WLP500 Monastery Ale Yeast

Won a local competition with this yeast plus a sachet of 05 brewed at 70deg and the Dubbel kit. The beer was only 1 mo. old...has gotten better since.

I used this for a Westmalle Dubbel clone I am designing. The flavor and aroma are perfect for this beer, but it still has significant cloudiness and yeast bite. It's still pretty young for the style (5 weeks), so I know I just need to be patient, but it's hard! I kegged it, and it is pouring cloudier and cloudier every day, so I'm hoping that another couple weeks and it will clear up as the yeast drop out. Also, I pitched two vials into a 5 gal batch that were about 2 months old, and had a very sluggish start (~24 hrs), and the beer didn't attenuate as much as I expected (FG 1.022), so I would highly recommend using a nice big starter and not just pitching directly.

Used 2 vials in a 5 gallon batch, started off slow, but about 24 hours after pitching yeast the beer took off. Great tasting triple!