WPStrassburg
Well-Known Member
I was looking for ways to harvest yeast via the blowoff. I looked at the krausening write-ups about skimming off the top of buckets, but I don't use buckets and don't want to (not that they're bad, I'm just a clean freak and don't want to pop the top of the fermenter to skim yeast and expose it to my funky basement dwelling critters).
My idea ( if it hasn't been done already...)
-Like usual put my 1" blowoff tube in the fermenter.
-Instead of using a pail of starsan to route the blowoff to boil a canning jar and reserve half the boiled ro water in the jar.
-Punch two holes in the jar top, one large enough for the 1" id blowoff tube, the other for a stopper and normal airlock.
-Stuff the blowoff tube into the canning jar under the water level and let ferment proceed as normal.
-Krausen pumps into the jar and collects in the water and settles.
-Once the ferment settles pull the blowoff tube and rack to secondary or just leave in the primary with regular airlock as you normally would.
-Boil more ro and solid canning top to top off the collected yeast, or more smaller jars to split the yeast into.
Not sure how much junk other than yeast is going to go into the canning jar, so a "normal" wash and split may be required to clean it up a bit, but will this method give a good, sanitary collection method of yeast?
Save me the time if it's been done and failed or give me the encouragement to give it a shot this weekend!
My idea ( if it hasn't been done already...)
-Like usual put my 1" blowoff tube in the fermenter.
-Instead of using a pail of starsan to route the blowoff to boil a canning jar and reserve half the boiled ro water in the jar.
-Punch two holes in the jar top, one large enough for the 1" id blowoff tube, the other for a stopper and normal airlock.
-Stuff the blowoff tube into the canning jar under the water level and let ferment proceed as normal.
-Krausen pumps into the jar and collects in the water and settles.
-Once the ferment settles pull the blowoff tube and rack to secondary or just leave in the primary with regular airlock as you normally would.
-Boil more ro and solid canning top to top off the collected yeast, or more smaller jars to split the yeast into.
Not sure how much junk other than yeast is going to go into the canning jar, so a "normal" wash and split may be required to clean it up a bit, but will this method give a good, sanitary collection method of yeast?
Save me the time if it's been done and failed or give me the encouragement to give it a shot this weekend!