I've only recently started top cropping my yeast and wanted to know of those people who do it how they store it and how long they've stored it before? I'm not trying to store it for months or anything, but am curious to know if I could keep it for a couple of weeks.
Right now I skim the krausen in to a sanitized flask, cover it with sanitized foil and put it in the fridge until the brew day. I do cover it with a tiny bit of the fermenting beer. Both times I've done it so far I was brewing again just a couple of days later and it worked brilliantly both times.
So would doing this be okay for a week or two between harvesting and brewing? Or is there some way to store them that would work better if I was waiting a couple of weeks between brews?
Right now I skim the krausen in to a sanitized flask, cover it with sanitized foil and put it in the fridge until the brew day. I do cover it with a tiny bit of the fermenting beer. Both times I've done it so far I was brewing again just a couple of days later and it worked brilliantly both times.
So would doing this be okay for a week or two between harvesting and brewing? Or is there some way to store them that would work better if I was waiting a couple of weeks between brews?