I have my first batch of beer ready to rack to bottles, and since I finally got my auto siphon Im ready too! (For some reason I had no problems racking batch 1 to the carboy, but batch 2 proved very frustrating to rack, so I grabbed an auto siphon from amazon since it seems to be one of the few items that they sell for less than my LHBS)
So my question comes with the yeast cake for batch 1, a Blonde Ale. I have read about harvesting yeast to reuse, and just racking beer directly onto a yeast cake, and I was wondering if its worth the ~$4 Ill save on a yeast packet to deal with this.
The yeast cake is from a blonde ale, and the next beer to brew will be the 2nd kit brew, an Amber Ale. Both kits use the same yeast packet, US West Coast, and I think I read that its OK to rack a bigger beer onto a lighter beer yeast cake...
For 1 gallon batches, is the ~2" of trub/yeast too much? Should I dump all the trub into a mason jar and follow the instructions Ive seen for yeast washing, or should I maybe divide it in half and rack directly onto it?
So my question comes with the yeast cake for batch 1, a Blonde Ale. I have read about harvesting yeast to reuse, and just racking beer directly onto a yeast cake, and I was wondering if its worth the ~$4 Ill save on a yeast packet to deal with this.
The yeast cake is from a blonde ale, and the next beer to brew will be the 2nd kit brew, an Amber Ale. Both kits use the same yeast packet, US West Coast, and I think I read that its OK to rack a bigger beer onto a lighter beer yeast cake...
For 1 gallon batches, is the ~2" of trub/yeast too much? Should I dump all the trub into a mason jar and follow the instructions Ive seen for yeast washing, or should I maybe divide it in half and rack directly onto it?