Bayern1987
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I was bottling my beer the other night which was my own version of my beloved Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen using the infamous wyeast 3068 strain and naturally I wanted to harvest this yeast to use in the future. As I was quite drunk at the time as I usually am when carrying out anything to do with homebrew, I was clumsy and careless. After bottling my brew, it was time to harvest my yeast from the fermenter. Whilst following the carefully laid out steps, I boiled my water to be added to the fermenter and mix in with the yeast cake and the trub. Unfortunately, not realising this to the next day I poured the water in whilst it was still boiling hot. My question is has this definitely 100% destroyed all of my yeast or can it still be reused? The yeast settled to the bottom as normal and is sitting in a Mason jar in the fridge... however is it merely inactive or just full of dead cells?
Thanks in advance to you all
Thanks in advance to you all