it’s looking good! I poured my juice and some invert cage sugar right into the lees in the primary and about 12 hours on i can see bubbles so it looks like it started! Pretty cool if it takes this will be the first alcohol I have made without directly tesring a yeast packet.
i wonder how many times i can do this before the primary needs to be sanitized.
You should be able to just poor a bit out, clean your equipment and put it back in and keep going
"Modern commercial brewers reuse yeast for several fermentations, often up to 40 or 50 batches, usually by pumping yeast directly from the bottom of one cylindroconical fermenter into the next. "
oh that’s pretty neat! This is going to cut my cost per gallon by a decent chunk that Côte des Blancs champagne yeast is not cheap but i’m also lazy so bought more instead of washing. Being able to stretch it even a few batches is cool. I checked it again just now and it’s going strong, too!
sprite0@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
it’s looking good! I poured my juice and some invert cage sugar right into the lees in the primary and about 12 hours on i can see bubbles so it looks like it started! Pretty cool if it takes this will be the first alcohol I have made without directly tesring a yeast packet.
i wonder how many times i can do this before the primary needs to be sanitized.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You should be able to just poor a bit out, clean your equipment and put it back in and keep going
"Modern commercial brewers reuse yeast for several fermentations, often up to 40 or 50 batches, usually by pumping yeast directly from the bottom of one cylindroconical fermenter into the next. "
seriouseats.com/homebrewing-reusing-yeast-how-to-…
sprite0@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
oh that’s pretty neat! This is going to cut my cost per gallon by a decent chunk that Côte des Blancs champagne yeast is not cheap but i’m also lazy so bought more instead of washing. Being able to stretch it even a few batches is cool. I checked it again just now and it’s going strong, too!