Pitching top cropping yeast

amartin · Post by **amartin** » Fri May 16, 2014 11:12 am

Hey all,

I'm planning on brewing two beers this long weekend, tomorrow and Monday. Tomorrow's going to be a best bitter, with Wyeast 1469, and Monday is going to be an English strong beer with the same yeast, probably an old ale. I've been top cropping yeast for years, but usually when I collect it I put it in the fridge, and then when I'm ready to brew again (in a few weeks, or more), I'll make a starter. However, I'm thinking I may just top crop some from the bitter and put it directly in the strong beer. Can anyone think of any reason why this may not work?

LiverDance · Post by **LiverDance** » Fri May 16, 2014 11:17 am

Nope

Post by **mr x** » Fri May 16, 2014 11:38 am

Sounds good to me.

bluenose · Post by **bluenose** » Fri May 16, 2014 12:31 pm

how do you feel about documenting the procedure for posterity?

amartin · Post by **amartin** » Fri May 16, 2014 1:54 pm

I can take some pictures and keep notes.

adams81 · Post by **adams81** » Fri May 16, 2014 3:16 pm

Please do! I'm trying to develop a process to maintain house strains and need all of the (tried and true) help I can find.

amartin · Post by **amartin** » Mon May 19, 2014 2:47 pm

Ok, so, I didn't take a lot of pictures, actually just one. I smacked the wyeast pack on Friday evening and made a half gallon starter with it after it swelled. On Saturday I brewed 11.5 gallons of bitter and pitched the starter into it in mid afternoon. It had little activity when I went to bed, but when I got up it had a krausen on it. It was thin, mostly foam, so I couldn't have top cropped any off of it anyway. Today I made 6 gallon batch of old ale, and aerated it pretty well. Lately I haven't been bothering with this step, but it's a bigger beer, so I figured I'd better. The below picture is one of the buckets of bitter. I took half of each krausen and stirred it into the old ale. The bitter was sitting around 65, and the old ale at 70, so it's cooling off a bit in the crawl space. I'll update later.

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amartin · Post by **amartin** » Mon May 19, 2014 9:37 pm

6 hours later, and it's fermenting well. Success!

Post by **mr x** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:05 pm

Excellent!

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amartin · Post by **amartin** » Wed May 21, 2014 6:27 pm

Update: it's fermenting so well that it's overflowing out of the bucket.

amartin · Post by **amartin** » Thu May 22, 2014 9:57 pm

It's still overflowing! I've never seen an English yeast this aggressive before.

Post by **mr x** » Fri May 23, 2014 5:53 am

Nice. May try this too with the new conical.

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