Some of us have pre ordered this yeast at White Labs. It’s a special order yeast that they propagate when they get 150 orders and currently there are only a handful of orders so I am encouraging those who like English ales to pre order and spread the word. Mark (saccharomyces) says this yeast is essentially a strain that was his favorite and he describes it in a thread I will link to.
Here is the link to order the yeast: https://yeastman.com/_store?action=storeMain
The site is not good and it’s easy to end up on the pro page where it looks like an astronomical price. You need to click “yeast strains” then go to the top and hit the “ vault” button.
Those of you on other forums, social media groups, or who have their own websites would be doing us a big favor if you spread this info.
Mark’s description is reply #23 here: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=36488.15
Thanks!
Let’s get it done!!!
I’m interested, didn’t sign up yet but I probably will. If I am going to order a vault strain, I might as well look at everything in the vault and order a whole bunch. This is a good reminder, as I’ve been meaning to do this. When I have more time I will look through these and order several.
Many of the Vault strains are periodically released as seasonal strains. However, I have never seen WLP033 released as a seasonal. The only way to obtain WLP033 is to pre-order it and hope that the count gets close enough to the pre-order propagation count of 150. I remember the last time that White Labs propagated. If I recall correctly, I placed my pre-order in 2015 and White Labs did not propagate it until 2017 when I was on a brewing hiatus. If we are going to reach the propagation pre-order count any time in the near future, we are going to need to promote this culture in a big way, maybe via a virtual “big brew.” It works best with beers around 1.052 or smaller. I would not call WLP033 an AIPA or APA yeast. For those looking for a squeaky-clean American ale fermentation profile, WLP033 is not your yeast culture.
I’ll post it it to brewers book club
I’m thinking brown ale, a Landlord-ish bitter, and maybe finish off with a barleywine on the yeast cake from the bitter. I have some Golden Promise and Celeia on order as we speak, and they will definitely be playing a starring role in these beers (provided that I haven’t used them all before the yeast is released).
By “big brew,” I meant what happens at Maryland Homebrew (MDHB) every year. A large number of brewers get together out in back of the store and brew outside. A virtual big brew in this case would be a brew where a large number of brewers agree to brew within a style with same yeast culture. English-style pale ale and bitter were common on the East Coast during the first craft brewing bubble in the nineties due to the influence of the Alan Pugsley-installed Peter Austin and Partners systems with Geary’s in Maine being the first. Dogfish Head was heavily influenced by the Wild Goose Brewery, which was in Cambridge, Maryland on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. There is little doubt in my mind that “Doggie” descends from the Ringwood culture used at Wild Goose.
Just submitted my preorder. There are now 5 of 150 needed. We may need a little help. 
The number should be higher than five. Who other than me and Roger placed an order for WLP033? I believe that someone stated that he/she placed an order for two packs. That leaves only one other person.
I did an order for 2
The yeastman site is only showing 4 pre-orders, so some people may have not completed checking out.
My order looks good
I am definitely one of the 4.
I wonder if they just didn’t update, considering how wonky the website is
I’m going to put in a pre-order, but haven’t yet.
I’d shot a question to their customer service and just got the response back.
Did you all get a confirmation email or anything? After reading this post I checked my email and logged onto their site and nothing confirmed that my order went through. I then assumed it didn’t and tried to order again, thinking no big deal if I get two. When I click on the specific yeast it actually put a different yeast in my cart. Twice.
I am just going to call them Monday, place the order if it’s not already placed, and tell them that the web site their drinking buddy made for them in 1998 doesn’t cut it anymore.
Wish my drinking buddy could build websites he just drinks my beer
I got a confirmation for my order, but I experienced the wrong item in the cart issue before I got the right product in there, too.
I received an order confirmation message as well.
That appalachian tart yeast seems interesting