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Do you not find it flaky in th bottle, easily disturbed like?

Only used it once and really didnt like that about it

Not a problem with the kegs! <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif" alt="" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->

But yeah, if you shake up the bottle a bit you'll disturb it.

Ah you see, there you go, not used kegs yet <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->

Did an APA on sunday and pitched onto the yeast cake left from the previous brew(another APA, fermented for a week with a sachet of dried US05)
Pitched late on sunday about 11.00pm at 20.c, OG 1053 fridge kept it under 21c till this morning when the temp started dropping. Down to 19.5c this evening so checked gravity. 1015.
I think I'm a convert.
I'm thinking of using US05 for everything in future, unless it's a beer that requires a very distinctive yeast flavour.
Any thoughts?

It's become my defacto yeast, so why not! If it works for you....

So..... yeast cake questions !!
Last night I racked two brews to Secondary, a blonde ale & a stout
(both hbc mash kits)
both brews used safale us 05

Q1. how long could I have left the yeast cake in the fv's before pitching a new batch on it ? presuming I sealed the FV
( a day - a week ? )

Q2. If I had washed them both - could I have combined them as they were the same yeast - or would the fact that they fermented different beers change the profile a little ?

just curious as washing out the fvs and dumping the cakes down the drain seems a little wasteful - but at the same time planning a brew around a one hour racking seems a little intensive after already spending a full day doing two AGs recently !!