First time yeast washing

[Jayf19]

Yeast is off of secondary fermentation ; been waiting for 30 minutes with no separation... does this look normal?

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

yes that looks fine.Lots of people don't wash yeast.You can just swirl all the slurry/yeast cake around in the bucket/carboy and dump it in a mason jar.Throw it in the fridge and your done

 

[Jayf19]

Won't the trub give me off flavors in my next batches? I filled 5 mason jars from a 5 gallon batch (BIAB); that can't be all yeast?

 

[enkamania]

yes that looks fine.Lots of people don't wash yeast.You can just swirl all the slurry/yeast cake around in the bucket/carboy and dump it in a mason jar.Throw it in the fridge and your done

Here is a thread about this procedure. I've never had any off flavors re-using yeast

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=519995

 

[Jayf19]

I was not aware yeast could be "recycled" in that manner. Thanks for the info and post! I'll probably leave it as is, but I would still like to know, what could explain that I'm not getting a separation of water / yeast / trub, as seen in complete yeast washing techniques? If anyone has insight on this, it would be greatly appreciated!

 

[STMF]

Time. Just give it some of that