Montage Pale Ale

[Scooby]

I haven't posted a brewday with pics for a while so I dusted the malt flour of the camera for this one.

3770 g MO
245 g Light Crystal
30 g NZ Willamette 6.6% 90 min
20 g Styrian Goldings 4.6% 90 min
30 g NZ Willamette 5 min
20 g Styrian Goldings 5 min
40 g NZ Willamette Added at 80c steeped for 15 min
30 g Styrian Goldings Added at 80c steeped for 15 min

OG 1038 IBU 35 12EBC Mash eff 80%

Actually got a smidge over 1040 so about 85%, here's the pics.

[arturobandini]

Looks great Scooby. Very nice presentation too! Hope it turns out well for you.

[Scooby]

Cheers, first time I've used Willamette so will be interesting but seems promising. First time with the Hooky yeast as well and it's going strong already

[Redbloke]

Excellent brewday post, this will take some beating

[Scooby]

Well it turns out that the yeast I lifted from a couple of bottles of Hogs back TEA is in fact S04 as their beer is filtered and reinoculated, I wondered why it got to 1.010 in 3 days, never mind I'll try Brakspear next time or just stick with Hop Back.

[arturobandini]

I wonder why Wychwood bottle condition Brakspear and not their own? Annoying with the yeast cultivation Scooby but at least you have fun necking the beers you cultivate though.

[Scooby]

No idea, there is one Wychwood beer I liked can't remember which one but I doubt bottle conditioning the others would improve them.

Strange as it seems regarding the TEA I only got 2 bottles because I thought it was the hooky primary yeast, but it's another beer that I don't particularly like, I find it has a strong and unpleasant taste.

[arturobandini]

I do enjoy some of the Wychwood beers; Goliath and Circle master. I suppose part of the fun for me in yeast cultivation is using the same strain as the brewery for a close yeast profile. Bottle conditioning with a yeast strain that compacts well but adds no profile sounds to me like bottle conditioning for the sake of bottle conditioning.