Yeast cake viability
#1
Posted 08 June 2009 - 04:33 PM
#2
Posted 08 June 2009 - 04:52 PM
I don't think I would wait that long. Usually if I go right onto the cake, I'm going into the secondary/keg/bottles (whichever as appropriate) while the boil is taking place. Then as it's cooling, it goes right onto the cake. If you have to bottle at a time other than during the boil, the saftest bet would be to swirl the carboy and pour the yeast into a sanitized Mason Jar. Can you bottle while you are boiling??? That would really be ideal.So I have a stout that I need to get bottled, and I wanted to re-use the yeast cake that it is currently sitting on for another batch. If after I took the beer off of the yeast I re-capped the carboy with an airlock, how long would it keep until I could use it? Would I have a few days you think?
#3
Posted 08 June 2009 - 07:21 PM
#4
Posted 08 June 2009 - 08:06 PM
I thought of this... except it won't have that protective CO2 blanket will it? And isn't that the important factor?I think the ideal set up would be as Deerslyr said is put the yeast into a sanitized mason jar but another idea is this. Why don't you transfer offer your stout and leave maybe an inch of beer in the carboy covering your yeast. I think if you do that so that it does not dry out you could cap the carboy and keep it for several days at the least. I don't think the yeast would know any better and I doubt it would harm the yeast as well.
#5
Posted 08 June 2009 - 08:07 PM
I have a co2 tank that I can pump co2 into it before I cap it.I thought of this... except it won't have that protective CO2 blanket will it? And isn't that the important factor?
#6
Posted 08 June 2009 - 08:10 PM
#7
Posted 08 June 2009 - 08:13 PM
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