Evfk
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This idea came to me after using bottle dregs to harvest a few batches of beer: rather than using a sanitized mason jar and a different process on bottling day, why not just reserve one bottle that is intended to be filled with the bottom of the barrel and have a lot of sediment with it? If you can harvest dregs from regular bottles I don't see why this method of cake-harvesting would be problematic, and presumably the cell count would be much higher than a normal harvest-from-dregs situation. Of course this doesn't save any time if you're kegging, but if you're bottling it would only be a few more seconds of work and would probably be a more reliable seal than in the case of a mason jar. The priming sugar would also help to feed the yeast a bit longer, and to create a bit of CO2 buffer until you wake it back up for the next batch.
Has anyone tried this? Anything in the way of troubleshooting that I've missed?
Has anyone tried this? Anything in the way of troubleshooting that I've missed?