First Time Yeast Washing

So i did a yeast washing for my first time. I mixed both of my 5 gallon carboys together before i did it and added a little less than half gallon of water. Here is what it looks like after 16 hours in the fridge. Does this look right? Looks like the yeast have settled to the bottom without much sediment left behind. Anyways what does everybody think? There are more jars than this just used these two for pics.

That's what mine looked like after the first time

So what doesn't look right? Haha

Ishraider said:

So what doesn't look right? Haha

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It is fine and I am sure with more practice it will end up like this.

Cool thanks!! That's some damn clean yeast!

Ishraider said:

Cool thanks!! That's some damn clean yeast!

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I cheated. It is rinsed yeast from a starter and not a fermenter.

Haha very sneaky!! This yeast was Nottingham dry yeast that I washed I just brewed a pale ale with my first liquid yeast this year. The California Ale Yeast first time using it. Either way I'm stoked if the yeast washing pans out and works for me cause buying yeast is expensive enough for 10 gallon batches and soon I will be jumping up to a 1 bbl system hopefully.

You can tell there's more settling to occur there. Once it does, you can replace the beer on top with sanitized water (distilled or boiled/cooled) if you want to reduce the exposure to alcohol.

tre9er said:

you can tell there's more settling to occur there. Once it does, you can replace the beer on top with sanitized water (distilled or boiled/cooled) if you want to reduce the exposure to alcohol.

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+1

Beautiful yeast, give it time, as with everything in brewing.

So I bottled a Pale Ale on Tuesday and my water was not cooled down enough to pour the water in and wash it. I put the airlock back on the little bit of beer yeast and trub hoping to get to it next day. Well its 2 days later will it still be OK to wash? I was hoping that by putting the airlock back on it would prevent any contamination. What is HBT community's thoughts? Wash it and use it or dump it?

I would suggest brewing another beer and pitch right on top of the yeastcake at this point.

You can probably still wash/rinse it and be safe, but I'd vote for pitching new wort on the cake now (it's ready to eat some sugar at this point)