Yeast washing question.

[dye4me]

So I tried yeast washing from my last batch. It seems I got about 1 liter of yeast in one jar and about 500ml in another. There is less then a 1cm of turb at the bottom should I still decant or should I just top up with water and put them in the fridge?

 

[Britinusa]

I would continue the decanting process to get rid of the trub, you did boil and cool the water you are using?

 

[dye4me]

Yes I boiled and cooled.

 

[rickyjphillips]

I have stopped washing yeast and started the practice of over building my starters. Go to brewunited.com and read his post and check out the yeast calculator.

 

[Britinusa]

I no longer wash yeast, i harvest it directly from the conical and settle it out then transfor it to 4 smaller vials, this can then be used in a starter for my next batch.
I only use yeast in similar batches, ie yeast from an IPA in my next IPA

 

[flars]

So I tried yeast washing from my last batch. It seems I got about 1 liter of yeast in one jar and about 500ml in another. There is less then a 1cm of turb at the bottom should I still decant or should I just top up with water and put them in the fridge?

Just leave the beer that was in the fermentor over the yeast. There is a lot of yeast in what looks like trub. Take a look at post #1 in this thread.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=519995

One of my yeast harvests;
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/photo/wy-1056-yeast-harvest-66431.html
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/photo/wy-1056-yeast-harvest-66432.html

 

[IronLion409]

This is an interesting topic for me and there is a lot of differing opinions on this subject so I'm just trying to keep learning. I have been cropping yeast and just adding it to a sanitized mason jar and refrigerating. I just brewed today. I made a starter on Friday with yeast cropped from a batch that was also previously cropped. No washing just leave a little green beer on top and refrigerate. Yeast was about sixty days old. Made a 2L starter. Pitched at around 2:00 PM today and by 8:00 PM had activity in blow-off tube. I haven't used new yeast now for about five batches. I might try to save some yeast the next time I make a starter from a new pack of yeast to see if I can get a nice yeast inventory from new yeast rather than cropped yeast. Today I left about 1/4" of the bottom later behind since it still had a smidgen of hops from the last batch and over all have had great beer using this method.