No I'm not talking about a new girlfriend... Heh. Anyhoo- at the end of a confusing and stressful brew session and in a fit of pique I scooped out about a 1/4-1/3 cup of yeast from a fermenter of Abbey ale. I lightly swirled it onto the surface of my cooled wort. I was worried about the viability but it seemed to incorporate into the wort on its own over about a hours time. It was foaming within six hours of pitching and is now fermenting quite vigorously. This was the fastest take-off I've ever seen- including pitching onto a huge fresh yeast-cake. Yeast is WLP530. I'm impressed.

Anyone else use this method regularly?

Dood, you should have seen the fermentation activity when I pitched the starter I made with US-05. Bubbles within a half hour, full bore in two or three hours. It scared me, I slept in the next room snuggled up with a blow off tube.

Sometimes they go like mad and sometimes they sit around for a little longer than we would like,
but they almost always go. (I have not had one that didn't go).

CLB

....I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who fall asleep next to the primary.

I tried using a fresh yeast cake for the first time with my Dunkelweizen and it took off in 75 minutes, love it.

Radtek, how did you do this scooping thing? I mean was it just that simple - say, just reach in with a sanitised glass measuring cup and scoop up a bunch of the sticky stuff and pour it in there. I ask 'cause I'm planning on tryin' this very thing.


Matt

Scooped it up with a sanitized plastic ladle. Pow!

Pow! me like pow. My buddy brung my new plastic 6.5 gal bucket today along with some Avery Hog Heaven,Reverend(2 bottles) and Salvation and an Optimator for research purposes
only you know..he's a good friend that one- anyway I'm gonna' make a ale with WLP022 Essex
Ale yeast.That yeast dont ever want to stay in the carboy, but I'm gonna show it who's the boss, I'm gonna' break that bucket in tomorrow. Brew again monday and do some scoopin'.......pow!
thanks


Matt
Might not feel like brewin' tomorrow come to think of it?

Hog Heaven is probably my favorite beer at this point. MMMmm. Got one in the fridge right now.

I loved the 'Hog Heaven', 'Salvation' not so much, I'm not even a hop head. Two was my limit
and still feelin' bad this mornin'. I can still taste those hops from th' BW. Wont be brewin' today.

Hair of the dogg. Hair of the dogg. Salvation is OK, but I usually pass it up. Not really to my taste as far as a Golden Strong goes.

true that, no Duvel that one. I finish it and it finish me. I'm just now feeling better and am having a Optimator but I wont drink any more beer today. ( that diabetes thing you know)