A nice compact yeast cake -- not

Denny's Favorite in a RyePA after four weeks in primary. I might have 3 gallons of beer:

wow lol ................ I have no words. How much yeast did you pitch?

yeast_infection said:

wow lol ................ I have no words. How much yeast did you pitch?

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a 1.5 liter starter after cold crashing and decanting. About my usual.

My Smoked RyePA fermented out with Dennys Favorite and I had a loose cake but not as crazy as yours, I cold crashed it at 33° for 5 days and that compacted it well enough so I could rack 5 gallons.

wow!!

Thats crazy. Pitch a MASSIVE barleywine on that cake!!!

Whoa that's intense! The most yeast I ever have had in one go was with a Pacman smack pack, but at best it was 1 inch tall. Your situation... thats a lot of yeast and a little beer. Wonder if its due to the starter pitch rate.

I'm assuming that most of that is just clinging to the side of the bottle, no? and not a 3-4 inch cake.....

I'd cold crash that bad boy with some gelatine!!!

BillyGHusk said:

I'm assuming that most of that is just clinging to the side of the bottle, no? and not a 3-4 inch cake.....

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This^^

I had what looked like a 2" yeast cake in secondary, but it ended up being about 1/8 inch that was curved up onto the side of the carboy. Got a full 5.2 gallons of super clear beer!

BillyGHusk said:

I'm assuming that most of that is just clinging to the side of the bottle, no? and not a 3-4 inch cake.....

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I hope that this is correct. I'll tell you tomorrow when I rack to the keg.

BillyGHusk said:

I'm assuming that most of that is just clinging to the side of the bottle, no? and not a 3-4 inch cake.....

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It was a 2 gallon yeast cake. Every bit of that was yeast/break/stuff, not beer.

I was going to write this long funny way of building this crazy contraption. BUT.... i've been drinkin and that aint happenen. :rockin: BEER!!!

jldc said:

It was a 2 gallon yeast cake. Every bit of that was yeast/break/stuff, not beer.

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That is absolutely insane.

I've had that happen, too. Is it because not enough crap gets filtered out?? I've also noticed that when this happens, the beer doesn't hit desired FG, so it was obviously concentrated to begin with. Adding a bit of water at bottling time seems to solve this, and the beer tastes as it normally does.

That is a nice compact yeast cake pause not.