Baron von BeeGee
Beer Bully
Does anybody do this? I've seen it mentioned in some literature, I've also seen people say it doesn't make any difference. I'm pretty much in the latter camp.
However, I decided to do it with my Hefe V2.0, well, just to see what would happen. I also was planning to harvest some yeast that way following in the Kaiser's footsteps, but ultimately it just went down the sink. What was interesting was that I reached full kraeusen pretty quickly and skimmed it off. 8hrs later the same thing! I've now skimmed off 4 'full kraeusens'. It's possible I would have had blowoff with this batch, but I usually don't. Anybody else noticed this? The first kraeusen batch had a lot of nasty dark material in it, but the next three were nothing but foam and yeast.
However, I decided to do it with my Hefe V2.0, well, just to see what would happen. I also was planning to harvest some yeast that way following in the Kaiser's footsteps, but ultimately it just went down the sink. What was interesting was that I reached full kraeusen pretty quickly and skimmed it off. 8hrs later the same thing! I've now skimmed off 4 'full kraeusens'. It's possible I would have had blowoff with this batch, but I usually don't. Anybody else noticed this? The first kraeusen batch had a lot of nasty dark material in it, but the next three were nothing but foam and yeast.