dirtymartini said:Could someone give this newbie a good explanation of what a yeast cake is? Is it just the trub on the bottom of the primary fermenter? Why is it called a cake? Inquiring (Noob) minds want to know!!
BTW I found this thread using the search.
Yep, the trub on the bottom. Why it's called a yeast cake I could imagine comes from what it kinda looks like. Princeton definition:
small cake of compressed moist yeast