Re-pitch yeast after use in beer with burnt wort taste

[nollerbrewing]

I would like to start off by thanking everyone who post on HBT! I have learned so much in the last year and a half and I can contribute most of what I know to this forum.

I'm still working the bugs out of my new RIMS system and recently burnt a couple of batches. The good news is my last two brew days have gone more according to plan without any wort burning.

Now for the question:
The last batch of beer I burnt was a chi wheat....... everything about the beer turned out great except the up-front burnt wort taste. I would like to re-pitch the yeast that was collected from primary, but want to get some feed back from the group before I potentially wreck another batch.

Thanks for the help,
Cheers!
Mark

 

[RCCOLA]

To say that there will be absolutely no favor contribution, I feel that I would have to have pitched on a cake with burnt wort taste. I haven't done that.

However, I have pitched a light colored/bodied lager on a cake from a schwartzbeir and had no flavor carryover from the black grains and choc malt in it. And, I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express once.

So, IMHO, I think you should be OK.

 

[nollerbrewing]

Thanks!

I think I will rinse the yeast to help protect from flavor transfer even more.

I will post my results.
Mark

 

[samc]

No idea what will happen. Except on the heels of having messed up a few batches you are going to save a few bucks on fresh yeast and take the risk?

How did you burn wort with your RIMS?

 

[nollerbrewing]

OOO let me count the ways...

1. My manifold slots couldn't keep up with wort flow and I had air in the heater/stuck sparge.
2. The heater has a relatively small power/surface area ratio.
3. My PID settings were causing the heater to jump the temp up to fast.
4...... ect

That is just a small list of bugs I've been working out in the process. The fact that I was using wheat and trying to step up the temp from 122 --> 154 with my style of heater didn't help on the first couple of tries either.

I'm really only using the heater to hold the temp and/or maybe raise the temp up 10 degrees ove 10 mins for a while until I know the limits a little better.

As with the hobby in general I have been jumping in over my head and learning the hard way! But man is it fun when things go right!