Reuse a yeast cake?

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Talloak

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This weekend my Hefeweizen should be ready to bottle. It's been in primary for three weeks. I am looking for tips about reusing this yeast cake. It was a BB kit with Notty yeast. Is it worth the trouble? If so, any good partial mash ideas to brew up for that yeast cake?
 
If you fermented a wheat beer with Notty, please don't call it a hefeweizen.

I don't think it's worth your while to save $1.59 and risk an infected batch of beer, unless you have some huge barleywine that could benefit from such a huge slug of yeast.
 
That's a strange yeast to use for a hefeweizen. I tought Nottingham was an english ale yeast.
My understanding is that a lot of the flavour of a hefe comes from the yeast.

And now back to the topic at hand....
 
As I stated, the Nottingham yeast came stock with a Brewers Best Hefeweizen kit (I used that word again). As I understand it, Nottingham is a hardy, good all-purpose ale yeast. Hefeweizen is an ale. Nottingham was included in the kit.

I think I got the answer I was looking for.
 

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