This is more of a question on how to use the Mr Malty pitching calculator properly when harvesting yeast from the yeast cake.
I will soon be looking to harvest from a Nottingham yeast cake and pitch this into a 1.073 winter warmer beer.
The Mr Malty calculator suggests 3 packets of dry yeast for a 1.073 beer, so I figured I would just harvest from the Nottingham yeast cake currently sitting under a session ale in my fermenter.
I don't have the equipment to wash/store etc and think that would be overkill for a relatively cheap yeast anyway.
My plan is to bottle the beer currently on top of the Nottingham yeast cake and harvest from it the same day I brew the winter warmer.
So: What do I put in for the harvest date on the Mr Malty calculator to figure out how much of the cake to collect?
Would I be right to assume that I type in the original pitching date of the yeast?
Thanks!
I will soon be looking to harvest from a Nottingham yeast cake and pitch this into a 1.073 winter warmer beer.
The Mr Malty calculator suggests 3 packets of dry yeast for a 1.073 beer, so I figured I would just harvest from the Nottingham yeast cake currently sitting under a session ale in my fermenter.
I don't have the equipment to wash/store etc and think that would be overkill for a relatively cheap yeast anyway.
My plan is to bottle the beer currently on top of the Nottingham yeast cake and harvest from it the same day I brew the winter warmer.
So: What do I put in for the harvest date on the Mr Malty calculator to figure out how much of the cake to collect?
Would I be right to assume that I type in the original pitching date of the yeast?
Thanks!