So, I tried to wash the yeast as illustrated in the guide in the forum. My problem was, the crap never settled down. In the pictures, you see, after 20 minutes or so, the trub falls to the bottom, and the yeast (still in suspension) is siphoned off and the process is repeated a couple of times.
My trub never fell to the bottom, and the whole thing just looked like a muddy black and tan without any clear seperation. So, I ended siphoning out most of the milky stuff (that's the yeast I reckon) and left the clear top part and the black part at the bottom (it was washed from a porter).
So now I've got about 800 ml of milky yeast-beer. The yeast isn't dropping, it just wants to float around.
I also have 1000 ml of DME based starter.
I don't know what to do, I don't want to just dump the yeast-beer in there, because I'd figure it'd lower the gravity of the starter and mess me up.
Help!
My trub never fell to the bottom, and the whole thing just looked like a muddy black and tan without any clear seperation. So, I ended siphoning out most of the milky stuff (that's the yeast I reckon) and left the clear top part and the black part at the bottom (it was washed from a porter).
So now I've got about 800 ml of milky yeast-beer. The yeast isn't dropping, it just wants to float around.
I also have 1000 ml of DME based starter.
I don't know what to do, I don't want to just dump the yeast-beer in there, because I'd figure it'd lower the gravity of the starter and mess me up.
Help!