JohanTheMighty
Well-Known Member
Good afternoon, I ended up here after doing a google search about reusing yeast. As you can well imagine, one of the search results led me to a thread from this specific forum and in that thread everyone was saying that if the timing is right you can just dump fresh wort right onto the old yeast cake. My question is whether the type of beer that was just emptied from the carboy would impart off flavors into the new wort that was just dumped on top of it.
So, if I just emptied an imperial ipa, using Safale-05 yeast, from my carboy, and my next batch was going to be an imperial bourbon barrel stout that calls for the same yeast strain, would I be better off washing the yeast and saving it for later use, or will remaining flavors left over from the imperial ipa be "scrubbed out" during the imperial bbs fermentation? Though everyone on that thread (an admittedly old thread dating back to 2009, lol) was promoting the idea of dumping right onto the freshly used yeast cake, the subject regarding how the leftovers from the previous beer might affect the new one was not discussed.
So, if I just emptied an imperial ipa, using Safale-05 yeast, from my carboy, and my next batch was going to be an imperial bourbon barrel stout that calls for the same yeast strain, would I be better off washing the yeast and saving it for later use, or will remaining flavors left over from the imperial ipa be "scrubbed out" during the imperial bbs fermentation? Though everyone on that thread (an admittedly old thread dating back to 2009, lol) was promoting the idea of dumping right onto the freshly used yeast cake, the subject regarding how the leftovers from the previous beer might affect the new one was not discussed.