Reuse of a Yeast Cake
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Posted 05 April 2009 - 07:44 AM
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Posted 05 April 2009 - 08:20 AM
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Posted 05 April 2009 - 09:19 AM
I have always just racked the original beer off and racked the new wort in, no cleaning, no nothing. Then aerate as normal (I use the shake method). Of course I don't worry about infections at all, never had one. If you are more concerned with sanitation than I feel free to clean out your carboy if you want, its just more work.So I have a California Common that is done fermenting on its yeast 2112. I am planning to brew an IPA and reused the 2112 yeast cake. I have reused cakes before but I have a few questions or some advice.1. Do you reuse the yeast in the same carboy as just finished? If so have you just transferred off the finished beer and pumped the new beer right onto the yeast cake? Do you take out the yeast cake and clean the carboy? The Common fermented and got krausen all that way up to the neck of the carboy. 2. When you get your beer and yeast in the carboy do you do anything different to get the yeast back in suspension other than shaking the carboy to aerate your wort. Just some thoughts I wanted to ask before I get to doing this. Thanks for the advice.
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Posted 05 April 2009 - 09:28 AM
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