Sewer_Urchen
Well-Known Member
So I have a summer ale I cooked up yesterday going with US-05. In a few weeks I plan on racking it and doing a stout in the same primary fermenter. The summer brew has lemon and lime zest as well as lemongrass, and is a wheat beer.
what I'm wondering is if I should rack that to the secondary, and pitch my stout wort right on top of the US-05 yeast cake (my concern is imparting some of the lemon flavor into the stout)?
or should I just wash out the fermenter and start from scratch with the US-04 packet I originally bought for the stout?
If I pour on top of the cake, should I wash the yeast first and pitch the washed yeast in?
Thoughts?
what I'm wondering is if I should rack that to the secondary, and pitch my stout wort right on top of the US-05 yeast cake (my concern is imparting some of the lemon flavor into the stout)?
or should I just wash out the fermenter and start from scratch with the US-04 packet I originally bought for the stout?
If I pour on top of the cake, should I wash the yeast first and pitch the washed yeast in?
Thoughts?