kanzimonson
Well-Known Member
I'm thinking about making a batch of beer, getting it in a carboy, and begin top cropping using this method. EXCEPT, I was thinking that on the second day of fermentation, I would brew another batch (maybe a different beer, whatever), put it in its own carboy, and begin directing the top cropped yeast from the first batch right on top of the second batch.
Using Mr Malty's calculator with the Yeast Concentration set to 1 and the Non-Yeast Percentage set to 10, it looks like I would need about 300ml of yeast slurry for 5.5gal of 1.060 wort.
It seems reasonable that if I were just top cropping into a flask like in the video, I could get 300ml of slurry, so do you think there would be a problem with my experiment?
Technically the pitching rate would be off in the beginning, but would increase to the correct level. The very first top cropped yeast to hit the new wort would begin reproducing immediately and significantly, and the last yeast would probably enter a wort with a large enough yeast population. I like the idea because you really couldn't get a purer yeast culture for repitching.
Using Mr Malty's calculator with the Yeast Concentration set to 1 and the Non-Yeast Percentage set to 10, it looks like I would need about 300ml of yeast slurry for 5.5gal of 1.060 wort.
It seems reasonable that if I were just top cropping into a flask like in the video, I could get 300ml of slurry, so do you think there would be a problem with my experiment?
Technically the pitching rate would be off in the beginning, but would increase to the correct level. The very first top cropped yeast to hit the new wort would begin reproducing immediately and significantly, and the last yeast would probably enter a wort with a large enough yeast population. I like the idea because you really couldn't get a purer yeast culture for repitching.