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I'm brewing another batch of cream ale tomorrow. I've got a yeast cake from an American Wheat that I transferred to secondary on 3/28 (5 days ago, is it still good?) still sitting in a capped primary. I've also got some washed yeast from the last batch of this same cream ale that is about a month old. Both the American Wheat and cream ale use safale us-05 and have OG's of 1.040. So what would you do? Pitch onto the 5 day old wheat yeast cake or make a starter from the washed cream ale yeast?
And when people say pitch onto the yeast cake, does this mean simply dumping your chilled wort right into the fermenter with the yeast cake & trub from the previous batch without any cleaning?
And when people say pitch onto the yeast cake, does this mean simply dumping your chilled wort right into the fermenter with the yeast cake & trub from the previous batch without any cleaning?