Holy yeast cakes, EdWort!

[skifast1]

Whoa, nelly - first batch of EdWort's haus ale is in the secondary and I couldn't believe the size of the cake in my bucket. Almost 1/2" deep! I felt bad not having a new batch ready to pitch on top of it.

I started brewing under the wyeast/white labs school of thought, but I may have to start keeping extra packets of dry Nottingham on hand. Per Ed's instructions, no starter, not even any hydration with this batch, just pitched 2 packets straight into the chilled wort. This recipe (so far) is definitely a positive AG experience. I highly recommend this recipe for other AG n00bies like me.

 

[EdWort]

Congrats. I only use 1 packet for 5 gallons though. Nottingham kicks butt!

 

[skifast1]

My ingredients had been sitting in the closet for a few weeks and I noticed the package said 'Keep refrigerated', so I double-pitched to be safe; I've had some less-than-optimal results with stale liquid yeast

 

[Kevin Dean]

I'm pissed. I too am doing Ed's Haus Ale as my first all-grain (his apfelwein was my first home fermentation) and got the grains in this evening. Unfortunately, I forgot to order the Nottingham yeast when I placed my order and my LHBS doesn't carry it.

Ed, I've got a WL California Ale yeast, a WLP #002 (English Ale?) and a Wyeast 1098 British Ale (Can you guess where my favourite styles come from?) on hand - would you recommend any of them? Perhaps a Safale 05 which my LHBS carries?

The other option is order a dozen packets of nottingham (since it's not readily availible to me) this week and do my Rogue Mocha Porter clone as my first all-grain and do the Haus Ale later.

 

[BrewBrain]

I did it with the California Ale yeast and it turned out great.

 

[Lil' Sparky]

The California Ale should be fine. FYI Safale S-05 is the same thing as 1056.

 

[Ryanh1801]

I used Cali. ale

 

[bandt9299]

California Ale for sure, makes the best APA's IMHO.

 

[EdWort]

I'm pissed. I too am doing Ed's Haus Ale as my first all-grain (his apfelwein was my first home fermentation) and got the grains in this evening. Unfortunately, I forgot to order the Nottingham yeast when I placed my order and my LHBS doesn't carry it.

Ed, I've got a WL California Ale yeast, a WLP #002 (English Ale?) and a Wyeast 1098 British Ale (Can you guess where my favourite styles come from?) on hand - would you recommend any of them? Perhaps a Safale 05 which my LHBS carries?

The other option is order a dozen packets of nottingham (since it's not readily availible to me) this week and do my Rogue Mocha Porter clone as my first all-grain and do the Haus Ale later.

California or Safale-05 will work fine.

 

[Funkenjaeger]

I used US-05, same as cal ale as sparky said, and it's made two excellent batches so far.

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

From what I read, WLP001 Cali = US05 = Wyeast 1056

 

[BierMuncher]

Congrats. I only use 1 packet for 5 gallons though. Nottingham kicks butt!

I used one packet (hydrated for 1 hour) split into a ten gallon batch of Old Speckled Hen and still had rapid, robust fermentation. Hit terminal gravity in 36 hours on a 1.056 beer.

Of course I'm a cheap ass so I harvested and washed for my next brew later that week...

 

[EdWort]

BM, you are the only guy I know who squeezes 10 gallons out of a packet of dry Nottingham and then spends I don't know how much of your valuable time to wash the yeast to save a buck fiddy.

Perhaps you should change your handle to YeastSqueezer.

 

[skifast1]

Perhaps you should change your handle to YeastSqueezer.

Well, there goes my appetite...

 

[BrewBrain]

Perhaps you should change your handle to YeastSqueezer.

Is that dirty? It is, right?

 

[BierMuncher]

BM, you are the only guy I know who squeezes 10 gallons out of a packet of dry Nottingham...to save a buck fiddy.

Yeah...but do that 1 million times? You do the math.....

 

[EdWort]

Yeah...but do that 1 million times? You do the math.....

Ok, I gotcha Mr. Finance guy. Here's your new avatar.

Now we just need to photoshop it to BierMuncherize it.

 

[Lil' Sparky]

Whoever does the photochop needs to make sure the edges are all jagged.

 

[Cookiebaggs]

Mr. Yeast Miser?

 

[kappclark]

The Haus Ale has been a real treat for me, since it got me started in AG. I am now going through my *second* batch which was pitched ontop of the first Nottingham yeast cake... fabulous activity for 2 days, then slow die off.

No secondary. Bottled after 2 weeks...carbonated in abt 4-5 days. I am determined this time to keep at least 1 6 pack more than 4 weeks !

Did not try a third generation on the Nottingham, but what a time saver it is re-pitching ... worth a 150 cents to me !

 

[D*Bo]

Nottingham is nice. I've used it a few times on some diffrent stouts with excelent results.

I even forgot to re-hydrate and just pitched it dry into a 1.086 wort with positive results. The airiation with O2 and a stone may have helped.