Change in WLP007 Behavior (washed yeast)

[ultravista]

Something odd I noticed about my WLP007 starter (washed)...

When I built my first starter the clumps were much large. After using that starter, washing it, then building another starter, the clumps are much smaller. It still drops pretty quick and compacts at the bottom.

The starter fermented quick too.

If the clumping is flocculation, then it is flocculating different now.

Should I not save this from the next batch, opt for a new vial & start saving again?

For those of you that have washed and reused WLP007 - do you see the same thing (smaller clumping) or is something different going on with mine?

 

[Rambleon]

I don't remember what it looked like fermenting but I know I always get better attenuation the second go around.

 

[ultravista]

This will be the third generation. The first two were fermenting beasts, no issues there. It just "looks" different. No off taste and nothing different (that I can see) other than a smaller clump size.

 

[Rambleon]

Interesting. Curious to see how it performs. No reason to believe anything is wrong with it. Stone reuses theirs a bunch before they start over.