ChuckinWA
Well-Known Member
OK gents, I've read the entire Yeast Washing Illustrated thread (why is it not a sticky anymore?), and believe it or not, after 555 posts, I STILL have a question! This is my first attempt at yeast harvesting BTW.
Saturday I racked my beer, swirled up the cake, moved it into a sanitized growler, added some boiled and cooled water, swirled it some more, and put an airlock on (which was REALLY bubbling for an hour or two). Now the cake has settled and I have about 50/50 cake and amber liquid. My question is this: the "directions" say to decant the yeast off of the trub, but.....I have no trub!??! I assume this can't be true, but it really appears that the entire cake is uniform looking - which I assume is yeast. There doesen't appear to be any other "gunk" in there at all. Do I have a yeast/trub mix somehow that I'm just not seeing? I figured there would be an obvious layer of gunk on the bottom, yeast sitting above that, and amber liquid on the top. But I only have 2 layers. What gives? I have a couple pictures, but can't figure out how to attach them.
Thanks for any insight!
Saturday I racked my beer, swirled up the cake, moved it into a sanitized growler, added some boiled and cooled water, swirled it some more, and put an airlock on (which was REALLY bubbling for an hour or two). Now the cake has settled and I have about 50/50 cake and amber liquid. My question is this: the "directions" say to decant the yeast off of the trub, but.....I have no trub!??! I assume this can't be true, but it really appears that the entire cake is uniform looking - which I assume is yeast. There doesen't appear to be any other "gunk" in there at all. Do I have a yeast/trub mix somehow that I'm just not seeing? I figured there would be an obvious layer of gunk on the bottom, yeast sitting above that, and amber liquid on the top. But I only have 2 layers. What gives? I have a couple pictures, but can't figure out how to attach them.
Thanks for any insight!