Pitching onto a yeast cake help

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I have a beer fermenting in the garage right now, let's call that beer 1.

I'm going to make another beer today, let's call that beer 2.

Beer 1 has been fermenting for around 3 weeks now, had an OG of 1.092 and is at around 1.020 but still fermenting away quite nicely. The only thing is beer 2 ideally needs the same yeast strain as beer 1, but I don't have another pack and wanted to reuse beer 1's yeast.

So, to overcome this problem, can I rack beer 1 to another FV, harvest the yeast and pour half back into beer 1 and the other half into beer 2?

Ive read not to pitch into yeast cake directly as it can count as over pitching.

Beer 2's target OG is 1.082.

Thanks
 
Thanks for confirming. Doing some research I can't see why not either.
 
I racked beer 1 into 2ndary, put half the yeast into beer 2, I had a small demijohn of extra wort so pitched some yeast into there and the rest back into beer 1. Beer 2 and the extra demijohn got off to a flying start.
 
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