Harvest Yeast From Astringent Batch

[Hinezer]

I've been trying more advanced techniques with my homebrew lately with my new system and of course I've ran into some problems. Long story short by last batch is going to be dumped because of astringency. I'm pretty certain that the astringency is due to not getting a good grain crush.

My question is, should I harvest the yeast from this batch? Am I going to risk contaminating the next batch by using it? I was really hoping to reuse this yeast but I don't want to double down on my mistakes.

 

[eddiewould]

I've had a batch turn out astringent before which I think was due to reusing the yeast too many times (Wyeast 1968) - or perhaps not being careful enough with sanitsation.

At any rate, I wouldn't risk it. My 0.02c