Off-Color Slurry
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My advice is if it doesn't smell weird, it's probably good. Remember, once the yeast is washed, it should pretty much smell like nothing (maybe a tiny bit yeasty, but nothing else). If you didn't filter your hops out, it's probably hops, but just use common sense. $6 isn't worth ruining your next batch.
Well, if the color is from hop particles, yes, a hop bag would keep that out, but you're always going to have some amount of trub in your yeast cake after the primary fermentation. You can wash a secondary yeast cake, but since I don't secondary, I usually wash my primary yeast cake.
I never use hop bags btw.
ReverseApacheMaster
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When you wash the yeast you will get rid of all or most of the hop material.
