Jaeger48
Well-Known Member
This is the first time I've used an existing yeast cake (saving time and money rather than buying a new vial of WLP-001 for each batch)
So I had a wonderful yeast cake left over from my last American Ale and decided to use it in this batch. The beer tasted fine as I racked out of the primary so I left about 1/2-1" of beer on the cake.
Today I brewed up an another American Ale with a very similar profile (less caramel malt, more victory malt), poured my cold water in, poured my cooled wort, and topped off to 5 gallons. I've seen in other posts that I should have rinsed the wort into a new primary. I left the old cake and detritus from the previous batch to avoid contamination. There was still a krausen ring in the primary but with the majority being hop resin I'm not too worried.
So- the question is... Will my beer be ok, (I know, RDWHAHB), and also- How many times do you re-use your yeast cake before pitching fresh yeast?
So I had a wonderful yeast cake left over from my last American Ale and decided to use it in this batch. The beer tasted fine as I racked out of the primary so I left about 1/2-1" of beer on the cake.
Today I brewed up an another American Ale with a very similar profile (less caramel malt, more victory malt), poured my cold water in, poured my cooled wort, and topped off to 5 gallons. I've seen in other posts that I should have rinsed the wort into a new primary. I left the old cake and detritus from the previous batch to avoid contamination. There was still a krausen ring in the primary but with the majority being hop resin I'm not too worried.
So- the question is... Will my beer be ok, (I know, RDWHAHB), and also- How many times do you re-use your yeast cake before pitching fresh yeast?