Can I harvest WB-06?

[Brownherb86]

I have a beer I’d like to bottle tomorrow and harvest the WB-06 yeast from the bottom of the carboy. It would be 10 days since it started fermenting @ 64* for four days then 3 days @ 67* then I dropped the temp to 58* to try and help the yeast settle. This is my first wheat beer and the yeast isn’t settling like the US-05 I’ve been using but instead has kinda stratified in the beer. Should I give more time to let more yeast flocculate or will I be good to bottle and harvest the yeast that did drop out?

 

[flars]

You can harvest WB-06. I have two jars in the frig of the harvested yeast. After three weeks in the primary I had a hard time swirling the yeast into suspension after racking the beer to the bottling bucket. No cold crashing. I just let it sit at ambient of 68°F until the beer cleared.

 

[Brownherb86]

Ok thanks flars. I think I’ll be patient and let it clear up more, makes more sense.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It's kinda a feature not a bug of wheat beer yeasts that they don't flocculate well - if anything WB-06 seems to be one of the more floccy ones IME. So yep, just give it time, and don't expect to get every last cell out of it.

 

[Brownherb86]

Thanks Northern_Brewer. Still new to all this and really appreciate the response’s