yeast cake/storage

[Mark1964]

Im bottling on sunday i dont want to waste the yeast in the fv what is the best way to harvest it and store it for next brew a week on sunday

 

[phettebs]

I put mine in a sanitized glass pint jar covered with foil and put it in the fridge.

 

[robsan77]

sanitize an old coke bottle of similar and pour some in there. Keep it in the fridge. 3 days before needed use that to make a starter and keep it warm. Make it up too about 500ml with either malt extract or sugar water with yeast nutrient added. Be sure to give it a good shake whenever possible if you dont have a yeast stirrer

 

[mr_spin]

I've often thought about doing the same - is it just a case of scooping the gunge off the bottom of the FV?

 

[phettebs]

yep, just make sure anything that touches it is sanitised.

 

[periolus]

This might be a silly question, but how much of the cake do you harvest? Or doesn't it matter too much?

Is it worth saving some cake from a Wherry kit so that I can pitch it into an AG Wherry mix in the future? How long does it keep in the fridge?

 

[Mark1964]

It will keep a few months in a bottle covered with cooled boiled water

 

[graysalchemy]

I drain of the beer then wash th efv out with a litre of boiled and cooled water, then tip it into some sterilized Keller Jars. the yeast will settle and compact down. Mine lasts for months this way. I used to go to the palaver of washing and splitting into small amounts but don't bother now.

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AG

 

[rickthebrew]

I do much the same :thumb: always have a couple different types in the fridge plus some dried (s-04, notty, us-05) as back up

 

[Aleman]

Around 100ml of slurry is more than enough yeast to pitch into 5 gallons of average strength Ale . . . Lagers and strong beers need more . You also need to use more slurry the older it is . . Use the Mr Malty pitching rate calculator to work out the correct amount

 

[Springer]

Did a brew last week and then found out I had no yeast in stock , so I just nicked some from another brew that was in progress.
Something I don't understand, there are lots of these, breweries keep their own strain of yeast going, but understand that yeast can mutate, so how many times is it reasonable to use yeast from an original source :?

 

[Bribie]

A mate who works in a Goverment Lab gave me some Schott bottles they were chucking out - waste of public funds maybe as rife in the UK as well I expect :?
But being German made I expect they would be available to buy from labware suppliers where you are. These two have wort in them but they are the ducks nuts for storing yeast as well, because the bottles and the caps can even be pressure cooked and you can fill them with slurry and keep them in the fridge for months. A few of them are an investment that can last you your brewing career.