Re-using yeast cake, going from big beer to small ok?

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OdinsBrew

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I've poured wort onto a yeast cake once or twice before and it's worked fine. What I heard was, to re-use yeast, ferment the smaller beer first, then pour the bigger beer onto the cake.

Any problem pouring a wort that will be about 6.5% onto a yeast cake for an 8% beer?
 
The issue is the higher you go up the scale of alcohol the more stressed the yeast are at the end.

It may well ferment just fine but I personally would use fresh yeast.
 
this could very well be bad information, so take it with a grain of salt, but the first (and only time, so far) i have reused yeast, i ended up with mixed results. the fermentation was pretty strong, but the beer needed about an extra month to age due to the incredibly strong yeasty smell. after some time in the secondary in the basement, it came out allright tho :ban:
i wonder if that was the result of "over pitching"?
 
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