Help me make up a cheap recipe of stuff to throw on this yeast cake!

[Kaiser442]

I'm brewing again - airlock bubbling happily on AHS' London Pub Ale! Sadly, I waited until my Red ran out so I'm short on things to drink (Belgian dubbel still on tap though).

Anyway - to the point:
It seems like a shame to just wash all this yeasty trub down the sink when I transfer to the secondary (and again when I xfer to the keg). I keep wanting to throw something - ANYTHING together to experiment.

It seems like it would be cooler if I could do it on the cheap... maybe a little DME, some honey from the grocery store, and a little table or turbinado sugar?

Anyway, it's White Labs English Ale yeast (WLP002) and I have 1oz of UK Fuggle hops (5.1AA) that they gave me by accident a couple months ago.

Since I only have a little hops I thought I might do a half-size batch.

Oh - another question... which trub would be better for this? The one in the primary - or should I wait until I transfer out of the secondary? I'm not too schooled on how much yeast sticks around until the later stages

Any thoughts?

 

[RM-MN]

Why do something cheap? You have good yeast and lots of it so do a good beer with it. If you can't get to it right now, look up yeast washing and store it in the refrigerator until you do have time. Heck, even if you do have time now, do some yeast washing and save some of it for the next 2 or 3 batches and you'll still have enough good yeast for a batch right now.

 

[KAMMEE]

This yeast would be really good for a mild which doesn't require hardly any hops and fuggles are great for them, but you would certainly be over-pitching if you just dumped right on top of the cake, not allowing for ester production. If it were me, I would just wash the yeast (do a search, there's a good thread) and can just use one of the jars of yeast right into your fermenter without a starter. Then the upside is you can clean and sanitize your fermenter after you wash the yeast and then throw the mild in there. Also, if you wash it, you'll get enough yeast to make a few starters over the next couple months... cutting your yeast cost down as long as your sanitation procedures are good.

Five gallons

4 lb of light DME
1 lb of crystal 60
.5 lb chocolate malt
boil the fuggles for 60 minutes.

 

[Kaiser442]

thanks for the recipe and the tip on yeast washing - I'll do some searchin'