DD2000GT
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My latest batch is the Holiday Ale kit from Williams, and I was ready to bottle my AHS Holiday ale at the same time. I got the White Labs yeast with the AHS kit and it really took off good (without a starter) and feremented well, and I figured it was about the same style of beer. So, I decided to bottle the AHS kit and remove some of the yeast cake to ferment the new Williams kit. So I siphon the AHS kit off and swirl the remaining yeast cake good - then siphon a fill 16 oz. Grolsh bottle of the trub and pour all of this into the fresh Williams kit wort, then shook the carboy good - thinking 16 oz would be plenty and should start fermenting quickly. BTW - the AHS kit sat in the primary for 3 weeks.
Well - 20 hours later and I don't even have a tiny bubble ring around the surface - I see no activity at all. I am not worrying, but trying to learn how much of the yeast cake to pitch into a new batch for the next time since this was my first attempt at re-using yeast. Any thoughts?
Well - 20 hours later and I don't even have a tiny bubble ring around the surface - I see no activity at all. I am not worrying, but trying to learn how much of the yeast cake to pitch into a new batch for the next time since this was my first attempt at re-using yeast. Any thoughts?