Crispyvelo
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Hello fellow brewheads,
I'm currently brewing a Belgian Single blond with WLP530. I'm only 2 days into primary fermentation, but I had a couple questions about harvesting the yeast to use in my next brew, which will be some kind of funky sour belgian blond.
I did something unique with this brew - I dumped EVERYTHING from the boil kettle into the fermenter (6.5 gal glass carboy). Within 20 minutes it looks like a lot of gunk had settled at the bottom. I instantly regretted doing this because I thought:
- This might make it more difficult to clear the beer (generally it seems like the less crap you start with floating around, the less crap you'll end with in the bottle)
- It might be harder to harvest and clean the yeast if there is a huge trub of other crap at the bottom after primary.
Thoughts? Should I harvest the yeast from secondary instead of primary to help filter some of the hop sediment out?
Thanks!
Chris
I'm currently brewing a Belgian Single blond with WLP530. I'm only 2 days into primary fermentation, but I had a couple questions about harvesting the yeast to use in my next brew, which will be some kind of funky sour belgian blond.
I did something unique with this brew - I dumped EVERYTHING from the boil kettle into the fermenter (6.5 gal glass carboy). Within 20 minutes it looks like a lot of gunk had settled at the bottom. I instantly regretted doing this because I thought:
- This might make it more difficult to clear the beer (generally it seems like the less crap you start with floating around, the less crap you'll end with in the bottle)
- It might be harder to harvest and clean the yeast if there is a huge trub of other crap at the bottom after primary.
Thoughts? Should I harvest the yeast from secondary instead of primary to help filter some of the hop sediment out?
Thanks!
Chris