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today I'm gonna show you my process for
washing and saving yeast some folks may
do this to save a few bucks we're doing
it to preserve some wild yeast in order
to wash yeast you'll need a few simple
items
we got leftover yeast and dregs
from our one of our log beer
fermentations so we're just going to go
ahead and harvest the yeast I first
started doing it years ago
from a Chop & Brew video Chip and DonO washing yeast
and it's kind of the process I've used
I'm just gonna go
ahead and pour that little bit of beer
that's left over from the first bucket
into the second
what I always like to do
is add about a 1/2 gallon of distilled water
just to get this slurry all mixed together
Since we did cold crash this
we have a pretty thick layer so I'm just
gonna give it the old swirl
and you can see it
kind of breaks up that huge cake
that was at the bottom and basically
we're just trying to get everything into suspension
We're in a good place right
now we got our yeast with our water
everything is kind of mixed together
from here you're gonna need a couple
things I always like to transfer it to a
carboy then you can tilt it on its side
and you can actually see the separation
it just makes it easier to pour
That'll make more sense once we get into it
and then you can use a, like a apple juice jar
we have couple 3, 2.5, 3 gallon carboys
this is what we're gonna use since we
don't have a gallon jug laying around
next step we're gonna transfer the water
yeast solution from our fermentation
bucket as you can see I've thoroughly
sanitized our funnel with Star San
a little bit of sediment and yeast still in here
so I'm gonna add a little more distilled water
give it another quick
rinse and then I'll just add that in as well
add that all over the table as well so we got
the yeast water and any other kind of
trub and sediment in our carboy next step
is to simply turn it on its side
so we're gonna let this just settle and hang out
for thirty minutes
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Alright
its been thirty five minutes I was on the phone
with a customer so you can see this
really nice separation the main reason
we put it sideways like this is we just
want to pour that nice milky layer and
leave the darker sediment behind and
like I said we're just gonna try and get
that top layer
and then we're going to let this sit for
15-20 minutes
all right so we got our
pint jars and a bucket of sanitizer you
just want to make sure your jars are
clean and sanitized we didn't get a
whole lot of settling in the second
settlement which is fine so we're just
gonna go ahead take this and pour them
into the jars
all right
now let's go put the lids on
and then I always followed
DonO's advice he said just make it a
little bit snug basically don't want
anything getting in
but you want it to be
able to burp if it needs to
not cranking down on them and we're gonna
put these in the fridge it's Friday
today on Monday we'll come back to the
office and we should see a nice layer of
yeast at the bottom if we don't we
screwed up
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so as you can see all the
yeast is settled in a nice layer at the
bottom
in order to brew a beer with the
washed and harvested yeast you'll need
to create a yeast starter check out our
how to create a yeast starter video
below keep an eye on the channel we'll be
brewing a beer with this harvested yeast
very soon you'll see us make a yeast
starter pitch it and drink it if you're
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the next one
here's a quick overview of
washing and saving yeast pretty simple
process and that's the process that I
use to wash yeast
Cheers
