Yeast out the blow-off

[907_fellow]

So I brewed a Snow White wit with white labs Belgian wit yeast. OG at 1.048. Brewed last Friday 10-26, made a 1.4l starter on a stir plate. It was my first starter and I wasn't expecting it to be so fast. I started with an air-lock only to find it totally plugged and overflowing the next morning 10hrs later. I immediately changed to a blow off and there was a lot of **** coming three the tube. Now it's wensday morning and fermentation has slowed way down.
Observing my blow-off container, it appears some yeast may have passed threw. Is this a bad thing?

Still looks like plenty is left in the primary. Sorry I'm still a lil green to the scene, this was brew number 8 for me.

 

[Bricks41]

Not a problem... happens all the time. More than enough left to finish the job!

Cheers!

 

[907_fellow]

Good to know. I guess some of what is in there could be trub and what not. Just wasn't 100% sure if this was something that can happen. The other times I have used a blow-off, I hadn't noticed much sediment.

 

[daksin]

You're good. 99.99999999999% of the yeast is in the beer, not the krausen.

 

[907_fellow]

You're good. 99.99999999999% of the yeast is in the beer, not the krausen.

It appears some of the yeast was in the Krausen, possibly more then .0000001% haha judging by the amount in my blow off container. The amount of sediment in there, and how much of that is actually yeast, was my concern.

 

[daksin]

Yea, obviously an exaggeration, but still, it'd be impossible to blow off too much yeast! Actually, though, people have used blowoffs into sanitized, sealed/airlocked containers to sort of auto-top-crop their yeast for reuse. I think that's quite clever.

 

[whoaru99]

That looks like a somewhat precarious balancing act.

 

[907_fellow]

Haha ya it is. It was a lil hairy while fermentation was goin crazy, but that was all the blow off tube I had left.