nigelnorris
Beavis at Bat
Completely confused.
Moved a fully fermented brew into a secondary yesterday to stick in the garage for a few of days chill prior to bottling.
Idly surfing about I saw a video about washing the gunk in the bottom of the primary bucket and saving myself four quid on the cost of yeast for today's new brew session.
Boiled a couple of kettles, cooled the water, then slung that onto the gunk in the FV and swirled it about.
Gave it half an hour to settle than poured off about 2L into a pair of 1L jars. At that point it looked something like jars of pond silt.
It took too long to cool the water so by this time it was bed time. When I got up this am I have two jars that have separated out into about 3/8" of pale looking silt underneath crystal clear thin beer. Plus another 1 /1/2L of assorted slime still in the FV.
The video showed a bunch of stuff about pouring it from jar to jar to get rid of the gunk at the bottom but then at the end it said that it's the gunk at the bottom that is yeast, which was really confusing, and anyway I didn't get time to do any of that, just these two jars. Is any of it usable? If so do I throw away the beer and pitch the silt or the other way around?
Frankly this looks like way too much trouble to save four quid, life's too short, but I've come this far so I might as well experiment the once.
Moved a fully fermented brew into a secondary yesterday to stick in the garage for a few of days chill prior to bottling.
Idly surfing about I saw a video about washing the gunk in the bottom of the primary bucket and saving myself four quid on the cost of yeast for today's new brew session.
Boiled a couple of kettles, cooled the water, then slung that onto the gunk in the FV and swirled it about.
Gave it half an hour to settle than poured off about 2L into a pair of 1L jars. At that point it looked something like jars of pond silt.
It took too long to cool the water so by this time it was bed time. When I got up this am I have two jars that have separated out into about 3/8" of pale looking silt underneath crystal clear thin beer. Plus another 1 /1/2L of assorted slime still in the FV.
The video showed a bunch of stuff about pouring it from jar to jar to get rid of the gunk at the bottom but then at the end it said that it's the gunk at the bottom that is yeast, which was really confusing, and anyway I didn't get time to do any of that, just these two jars. Is any of it usable? If so do I throw away the beer and pitch the silt or the other way around?
Frankly this looks like way too much trouble to save four quid, life's too short, but I've come this far so I might as well experiment the once.
