Baking with Top Cropped Yeast

[Monky_Business]

I made some bread dough with yeast I top cropped of my winter ale; however, it didn’t rise very well so I made focaccia out of it. Has anyone had luck getting top cropped yeast to rise well? I put a tbsp. of yeast in a poolish of water and flour for a few hours before making the bread. Do you think it just needed to rise overnight, needed more yeast, or needed sugar to reactivate it?

 

[eastoak]

i don't know but i'm pretty sure others have used yeast cakes for baking bread on these forums before.

 

[eastoak]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f56/making-bread-yeast-cake-133431/