bignath
"Grains don't grow up to be chips, son"
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Hi brewers,
brewed a double batch on the weekend, and woke up yesterday to find one of the cubes has slightly lost it's seal. One of them has remained airtight and contracted, the other has regained it's original shape.
Went to the LHBS today to get a fresh batch of yeast, but they've run out of the yeast i intended to use.
HOWEVER, whilst i was mashing my last batch, i captured the yeast cake of the previous fermented batch into 3 "sample" containers (the ones you get from a chemist with the yellow lids).
I have never reused yeast before so here's my question (finally)
I want to get the wort out of the cube that hasn't quite sealed properly as soon as possible, so can i just bring the temp of the yeast samples i've collected to match the wort, and pitch using the samples? The samples look like a good, clean collection of yeast with little trub and stuff. The previous batch wasn't dry hopped and it looks nice and light, milky cream colour....
Can it be just as simple as swirling some sterile water into the samples so they "pour" out of the sample containers and throwing my wort on top?
Thanks in advance, as i really want to get this into the fermenter tonight so it doesn't go nasty without a proper seal in the cube....
Nath
brewed a double batch on the weekend, and woke up yesterday to find one of the cubes has slightly lost it's seal. One of them has remained airtight and contracted, the other has regained it's original shape.
Went to the LHBS today to get a fresh batch of yeast, but they've run out of the yeast i intended to use.
HOWEVER, whilst i was mashing my last batch, i captured the yeast cake of the previous fermented batch into 3 "sample" containers (the ones you get from a chemist with the yellow lids).
I have never reused yeast before so here's my question (finally)
I want to get the wort out of the cube that hasn't quite sealed properly as soon as possible, so can i just bring the temp of the yeast samples i've collected to match the wort, and pitch using the samples? The samples look like a good, clean collection of yeast with little trub and stuff. The previous batch wasn't dry hopped and it looks nice and light, milky cream colour....
Can it be just as simple as swirling some sterile water into the samples so they "pour" out of the sample containers and throwing my wort on top?
Thanks in advance, as i really want to get this into the fermenter tonight so it doesn't go nasty without a proper seal in the cube....
Nath