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The beer that set me on my way to brewing many American Pales. Love it! My favourite style now.

Will do, it's right by my side! clapa

Cheers, loads to read and I'm supposed to be working!!

Thanks for that RWAB. I was wondering if i'd need to "feed" it with more wort. Sounds like sourdough! 😂 Got some activity today and the bottle is pressurised.

Great stuff An Ankou. That all makes perfect sense. Cheers!

Thanks AG for a great reply! Glad I brought it to work with me, for constant care. 😂

I knew I'd be back for advice! So I made 1 litre of wort from DME, boiled for 15 mins, added a bit of yeast nutrient, cooled and tipped into a 2 litre plastic bottle. I tipped the dregs from my one and only bottle of PJ in and shook it up. My question is - how often should I be shaking it, or...

Yeah, that's my concern. I'm down in the big Island on Monday, so if this fails I'll grab 3 more!

A Proper Job which has just released it's yeast babies for me to culture for my own version. Hope my head retention is better than this one!

Pint of a pale made with the CML Falconers Flight blend whilst a Sitra (their spelling, not mine) pale finishes the boil. This AG kit seemed a bit light on the hops, so I bittered with Columbus to save the Citra and Simcoe for the flame out.

That's a really interesting method. I'll ponder that and may well try it for longer storage brews.

Thanks for the advice Foxy. Just in time too as I'm cold crashing a Saison for bottling tomorrow. I've only just got the fridge so would have completely forgotten about the temp factor!

I bottle everything and find that the longer the time in the bottle the more the carbonation. Mine are fine up to about 2 months old but the level of carbonation is still increasing. I've got some of last year's Call Common which are now total gushers.

Any advice on feeding the hop plants with Miracle Gro, or anything else?

Found some bottles of last years Samuel Smiths Winter Welcome in the garage. Not appropriate for this weather but bloody good!

Brewed an American Pale ale yesterday called Moose Knuckle. A simple recipe of just Maris Otter with Cascade and Centennial hops. Came out super pale and hit the numbers perfectly at 1.054. Using about 60% RO water really has sorted my mash pH issues which has improved efficiency no end.

Thanks for the advice Gents. In the end I'm making an American Pale called Moose Knuckle. I'll research yeast cultivation for the PJ for next weekend.

Cheers An A. If you think the real yeast is a game changer then I'll brew something else tomorrow and do the PJ next weekend. Any info on yeast cultivation is welcome. I haven't got a stirrer plate or anything though.

I do actually have a bottle I bought just for the yeast, but haven't got round to it. To be honest I'm not quite sure how to! I've harvested lots of yeast from my brews, but never "grown" one.

Tommorows brewday will be an AG Proper Job from BrewUk. As usual I didn't order the yeast with the kit as I like to use Crossmyloof as they're such fun to deal with! So i have a choice of Ale, Five, Clipper or Atlantic. What do you reckon?