hirns wrote:Thanks for the reply Doc
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Doc, what is your top cropping procedure? I'm assuming that you are oppening the fermenter and skimming some of the krausen into a sterilised bottle via sterilised ladle or spoon. Cover the yeast with some cooled boiled water and store refrigerated.
Hirns
You got a bug in my house?
Exactly how i do it.
Sanitise everything including my hands, take the lid (in my case clingfilm) off the fermenter, scoop up the krausen with a soup ladle, pour into a funnel into a bottle and wash down with cooled, boiled water. Leave the lid on loosely for 24 hours as it will ferment out any remaining sugars in no time then screw lid tight.
Pure yeast, no trub, no hops, just healthy yeast.
Re-pitch that within a week and it will take off in less than a few hours.
And the best part is you can top crop successive generations for much longer than you can with the yeastcake.