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I live in the UK and in my short experience of brewing, and experimenting in US hops cascade seem to be my favourite and they also always sell out in the LHBS.

Haha. All this time you have been making FAKE beer with NO alcohol. ;)

I have a LHBS 3 miles from me and I have used them quite a bit, but now I do AG I get my grains and hops in bulk. the price difference is double in the LHBS. But as its not far from me or where I work I can get there in 5 mins. I only use it now for the odd speciality grains or yeast.

Cheers. All is clear now. :)

Did you scoop out 2/3 of the yeast cake and then pitch on top?

Thanks for the advise. I have half pint mason jars so I should just pour the cake into two of them and then re sanitise my bucket for the next batch?

Thanks for the link. I'm actually leading towards pitching onto the yeast cake now. I mean if I have never tried it this way then how will I ever know what's good or bad for my taste buds. ;) Cheers

I have never racked straight onto a yeast cake before. I would usually just go and buy another pack of dry yeast but S-05 seems to be expensive here in the UK. Also I will be going from a 3 gal batch to a 5 gal batch. Is this a big problem for reusing the yeast cake?

As the title says. I used S-05 in my last batch which was a citra pale and it is fermenting away now. For my next batch I plan on doing the "yoopers house pale ale" I want to reuse the yeast. Would it be ok to wash this yeast, or should i just rack onto the yeast cake?

This is my next brew. Got all the ingredient and will be doing this in about 10 days :)

I put a heat belt on my bucket last night and its now bubbling away. :)

I have decided to put the beer In my living room to try get the temp up and I will move it back to the cupboard in a couple of hours and insulate it. Thanks for the input. Hopefully it will kick on :)

I ferment in a cupboard in the kitchen it's currently at about 60F. I ferment in a bucket. I pitched the S-05 dry. I do usually rehydrate but I forgot to do this. The yeast is fresh as far as I'm aware. I have wrapped the bucket in a thick towel so maybe this should do the trick.

So do you think that by this time tomorrow it should start fermenting? If it doesn't should I put a heat belt on it?

Just updated my post sorry

Hi all. I live in England and have only been brewing for about a year now. I am now doing AG. I have a big interest in brewing some American ales. Anyway I haven't got much experience with S-05 yeast. I pitched my S-05 about 22 hours ago at about 18c (64f) but over night it has got down to...

Looking forward to watching later :)

Damn I feel sorry for you ;)

Thanks for the help. I think I'll save the fuggles and go with the chinook and citra :)

Hi all. I'm doing a batch using all the leftover stuff I have left. I want to do a pale ale. My grains are Maris otter and crystal 120L. I'm only doing a 3 gal batch. I have 1oz each of chinook and fuggles and 2oz of citra. Could anyone help me with a good hop schedule with these hops? I'm...