How much yeast for a 5 gallon brew

I recently collected washed the yeast from my first ever home brew. If I am to use this yeast in a future batch, how much of the yeast should I add per 5 gallons?

Use the pitching rate calculator here: http://www.mrmalty.com/calc/calc.html. Select "repitching from slurry". The defaults are set for an "average" slurry.

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Thanks, that will help a lot. One more question; How would adding too much yeast affect the fermentation?

I'd actually suggest to you that using washed yeast on your second homebrew ever might be a mistake. Nail down all your brewing processes before getting into yeast harvest, etc.

Just one guys opinion!

lindebeast said:

I recently collected washed the yeast from my first ever home brew. If I am to use this yeast in a future batch, how much of the yeast should I add per 5 gallons?

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Approximately 177,000,000,000

JewBrew said:

Approximately 177,000,000,000

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Its gonna take me quite a while to count out that many yeastie cells

samc said:

I'd actually suggest to you that using washed yeast on your second homebrew ever might be a mistake. Nail down all your brewing processes before getting into yeast harvest, etc.

Just one guys opinion!

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Yeast washing is very simple. No reason to not jump into it right from the start. You'll want to make a starter with it first anyway, so you'll be able to smell and taste the starter before pitching to mkae sure all is ok with the yeast.