Reusing a yeast cake guidance

[rich1985]

Hi All,

I'm planning on brewing an IPA tomorrow on top of a Kviek Lallemand Yeast cake. Do I literally just dump the fresh wort on top of it. I usually drain from a height into the fermenter to get lots of oxygen in to the wort. Will I do this differently as it will upset the trub?

Thanks in advance!

Richard

 

[cushyno]

Pitching onto a whole fresh yeast cake for any typical 1.040-1.060 batch is a large overpitch with regular yeasts. I usually take 1/3 of the yeast cake only. From all the info you see on kveik, it's best to massively underpitch. So I'd expect about a tablespoon of yeast cake would be enough.

You'll need to ask someone with experience of kveik.

 

[An Ankoù]

I'm about to use Lallemand Voss for the first time. i'd be grateful for people's thoughts when it comes to pitching levels and reuse quantities, too.