RogueVassar
Well-Known Member
Hey, I tried searching but am terrible about what the terms are. I think of this as a secondary fermentation but all my searches just brought up racking to a secondary bucket or carboy. Anyway, here's my question:
My wife is brewing a Port Barrel-aged Belgian Brown Ale (which looks like it will be awesome and is a AG version of the recipe found in "Extreme Brewing") which startes of with a Belgian Strong Ale yeast. It says to pitch the Lactobacillus yeast about five or six days in as a secondary yeast.
I'm frugal and love repitching yeast so here I have two yeasts I haven't used before and would love to save them but didn't know if it would be alright to rack the beer to a different bucket before pitching the wild yeast so that I could then save the Strong Ale yeast. Then the yeast cake from the next bucket would be a way to save the wild yeast. My worry is that it might make the wild yeast stronger in the second fermenter if there isn't as much of the other yeast to battle it for the remaining sugars.
For all my urges to save these yeasts, I don't want to harm the beer (especially since it's my wife's).
Thanks!
My wife is brewing a Port Barrel-aged Belgian Brown Ale (which looks like it will be awesome and is a AG version of the recipe found in "Extreme Brewing") which startes of with a Belgian Strong Ale yeast. It says to pitch the Lactobacillus yeast about five or six days in as a secondary yeast.
I'm frugal and love repitching yeast so here I have two yeasts I haven't used before and would love to save them but didn't know if it would be alright to rack the beer to a different bucket before pitching the wild yeast so that I could then save the Strong Ale yeast. Then the yeast cake from the next bucket would be a way to save the wild yeast. My worry is that it might make the wild yeast stronger in the second fermenter if there isn't as much of the other yeast to battle it for the remaining sugars.
For all my urges to save these yeasts, I don't want to harm the beer (especially since it's my wife's).
Thanks!