Old Ale Yeast lives! Historic Brown Porter update.

so i had saved a small amount of wort from the brown porter brew for a forced fermentation.  i realized in hindsight that i needed to get the other yeast i had mentioned (Wyeast Old Ale Blend) up to speed.  so i checked the gravity of the old ale i had made last year, and dipped the auto-siphon deep to get some dregs for the jug of wort. the old ale is tasty for sure, but that's a different subject for another post (aka, when i bottle some of it).  been busy the last few days, so i didn't check on it too much and today:

wide awake!

good news indeed.  so i'll have no trouble making the second half 'stale', although it appears the ale yeast also survived the ~10% old ale from november of last year.  very curious about how all this develops.