Just washed my first yeast!
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 07:40 PM
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 07:46 PM
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 07:47 PM
Joe,You should be fine to repitch the slurry that you have collected and cleaned regardless of the violence of your last fermentation. I use a blow off tube when mine go wild and yes I lose some yeast to carry over but the vast majority of the yeast still settles in the fermenter. I see no issue for you to repitch as you wish from your slurry. I have never bothered to collect or reuse any of the yeast that carries over from the blow off. Just my personal preference.Just harvested and washed (I guess technically rinsed?) my first yeast from the Rye IPA. I used the method of dumping in boiled and cooled water, letting settle, pour into container and repeat into pint jars. I did have quite a bit of hop gunk in the fermenter - for whatever reason it just didn't want to settle out after the boil. However, the pint jars look pretty clean - nice white pale yeast with no green junk.Now, I do have a concern. This was one of the most violent fermentations I've had in awhile and I had a pretty violent blow-off. I'm afraid that my high attenuating buggers might have been blown out of the blow-off tube during the feeding frenzy. My beers always seem to under-attenuate when I have violent blow offs (not sure if this is a valid association however). Should this affect the yeast much? Or should I not worry and just repitch?This is pacman yeast and I'd like to pitch some of it into Ken's Home Run Red. (Yep... I'm becoming Ken recipe addict...) However, I'd rather not ruin 12 gallons of red gold if y'all think the blow off may have compromised the viability of the yeast.Joe
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 07:53 PM
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 08:03 PM
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