Blow off as starter

[Electrake]

Just wanted to share this one since it has made me unreasonably excited...

I did a partigyle brew yesterday, and the yeast in the big beer totally took off, had to change out my blow off container twice. However the smaller beer showed no signs of life at all, it had used some older yeast I had collected and washed.

Long story short, placed blow off tube into the smaller beers carboy and let it shoot it's magic into the beer.
Few hours later, pretty exciting developments showing strong signs of life.

 

[SleepyCreekBrews]

OMG, you let it shoot it's magic into the beer ?!?! How could you be so vile !

lol

 

[NoIguanaForZ]

Just to clarify: you mean you used the gunk inside the blowoff tube as a source of yeast, not that you poured in whatever vessel it was blowing off into?

 

[Ungoliant]

The way I'm reading it is, he put the end of the blow off in to another beer. I actually think it's a pretty damn good idea.

 

[Electrake]

Yeah I put the blow off tube directly into the top of another carboy lol. It worked!

 

[eddiewould]

Thing is, you'll never know if it was just about to start bubbling away without you having done anything

 

[Electrake]

agreed^ however based on the fermentation that has occurred already, I think it was the yeast that was bubbled in, it is definitely under attenuated for the length of time it has been sitting. I'm going to repitch with s04 most likely.