kansasbrew
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I washed some Nottingham yeast from my last batch of beer. I poured off the first water after 20 minutes and then repeated that twice. What I got after the final quart of liquid stratified (days later) was what looked like about 1/2 inch of pale, creamy colored yeast at the bottom, about two inches of darker greenish (but then I'm color blind so it could be tan)layer of something above that, and then water above that. I thought the trub was supposed to be the bottom layer and the yeast above that, but it looks reversed. Does some yeast go to the bottom after washing? I could imagine that some of the particulate that remained after three twenty minute intervals was light weight particles of waste that is lighter than yeast. But, it seems backward.