This did not come out super carbonated but it was much better than the Imperial Stout. A few months later while bottling a Belgian Quad that was about 9.5% ABV I bottled with CBC-1 yeast. I made "Dragons Silk" from Northern Brewer and at bottling it was about 9.7% ABV. I'll defer to the others on the initial yeast but I do have a recommendation for bottling yeast. Wyeast 1762 is meant to share the same origin but is listed as having lower ABV tolerance. So it should ferment your beer without too much trouble, whilst giving you some nice fruit character. So my recommendation for this kind of thing would be WLP540 Abbey IV which despite the name is a non-phenolic British yeast, but allegedly it comes from Rochefort so has adapted to high-alcohol dark beers. But 12% is at the upper limits of what most British yeast are comfortable with. WLP090 is a derivative of the Chico family (US-05/001/1056) so lacks character for British style beers. And at the moment Hop & Grape has a few Brewlab slants. FWIW if you want an EU (for now.) source of some of the rarer US yeast companies, try eg BrewUK (they seem to have stopped doing Giga and Imperial but still do WL, Wyeast, Yeast Bay and Omega), Malt Miller (WL, Wyeast, Yeast Bay, Imperial) and Brewstore (WL & Omega).
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