Yeast - Are You A Stirrer Or A Sprinkler?

[Edak]

How does that work?

If he is an extract brewer then he will have a sanitised spoon for mixing his extract into the water.

Personally, this week I tried rehydrating US05 instead of just sprinkling it as per usual. There was A LOT more activity this time around and have the 4 inches of krausen/foam on top during the fermentation. This may also be attributed to having also aerated with a pump and stone instead of shaking the bejesus out of it. Which ever it was, I am happy to see this type of action.

I will rehydrate from now on as it is not really all that difficult if you have a thermometer and a proper flask.

I boiled and put 115ml water into the sanitised flask, let it cool.
Before I put the yeast in there I let it cool down (covered of course) then heated to 27deg over stove top.
After verifying temperature, I emptied the pack into the flask and let sit for 10-15 mins until the yeast dropped off the top.
After this I swirled for 5-10 mins, which mixes and cools it (somewhat) before dumping into fermenter at 19 deg. It is now fermenting at 18deg nicely.

 

[benno1973]

Wouldn't you already have a sanitised spoon from stirring in the wort/water anyway?

The time between me stirring my wort for whirlpool and pitching my yeast is anywhere from an hour to a few hours (depending on how well my chiller is working). That's plenty of time for my spoon to become 'un'sanitised. But I can see that if you're stirring water intio a kit beer with a sanitised spoon, you could use that for stirring yeast too. Doesn't apply in my case though.

 

[wbosher]

The time between me stirring my wort for whirlpool and pitching my yeast is anywhere from an hour to a few hours (depending on how well my chiller is working). That's plenty of time for my spoon to become 'un'sanitised. But I can see that if you're stirring water intio a kit beer with a sanitised spoon, you could use that for stirring yeast too. Doesn't apply in my case though.

Looks like you've been around the traps for a while, probably should have guessed you weren't a kit brewer. :lol:

 

[manticle]

If he is an extract brewer then he will have a sanitised spoon for mixing his extract into the water.

Makes a bit more sense. It read to me as if the suggestion was that water or wort would somehow sanitise the spoon.

As you were.