For the past few months, I've been harvesting active krausen to pitch into my new beers. I do nothing more than scrape at least half of the active krausen and dumping it onto a cooled wort, without getting too much fermenting beer into the new vessel. I haven't had one problem in over ten beers from the same white labs California Ale yeast starter. In fact, it's usually faster to get a beer fermenting this way than even a yeast starter.
My question is, has anyone actually done this for a long time? (at least on this site)
Also: Am I thinking wrong with doing this even though I've had fantastic results?
FYI, I brew a lot of beer, so I always have an active brew to harvest from.
My question is, has anyone actually done this for a long time? (at least on this site)
Also: Am I thinking wrong with doing this even though I've had fantastic results?
FYI, I brew a lot of beer, so I always have an active brew to harvest from.