StoutNoDoubt
Well-Known Member
Soooo, I decided I would try to wash the yeast cake from my secondary fermenter and use it for my next batch of beer. I heard that you have to make a starter when using washed yeast but I didn't. I used a california ale yeast. I boiled my Texas bock wort and then cooled it down, I had my washed yeast sitting out to room temperature and after my wort chilled I tossed in the washed yeast and woke up excited to see if this little money saving technique worked or not, sadly it did not. There wasn't a single sign of yeast activity in my ale pail. Soooo my question to anyone is what did I do wrong and is this pretty typical to have a washed yeast not work or is it because I didn't use a starter? I ended up buying new yeast to save my beer.....