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Pirate_Pete

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G'day all.

I was wondering if anyone reused their yeast from a cider or wine.
I was planning on re using some beer yeast soon, so I watched some youtube videos of how it's done.

Then when I made a cider a couple of weeks ago I thought I'd try reusing the yeast on that. On the videos for beer yeast it seems the trub, yeast and water/beer
settle out into different layers that are quite visible. The cider yeast that I rinsed yesterday has settled. However I'm beginning to think that there's no trub as such.
Here's a couple of pics. Demijohn on it's side. Bits of lemon floating on top. Then clearish cider/water and then on the bottom I presume that's the yeast. No trub.
The demijohn is on it's side as I saw someone else do it like that. Easier to pour from once settled.

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OK, no one eh?

So a day later and the slurry I had in an old apple juice container had cleared and left the yeast at the bottom.
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So as an experiment I added some apple juice and some sugar and gave it a shake. Instead of the lid I put a balloon over the opening.
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It's now sat in the brew fridge at 20C.

Stay tuned for an update.....

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Not sure if anyone is interested, but this started fermenting straight away.
I poured into a DJ, added a couple of litres of AJ and couple of Grape Juice.
It's been bubbling along nicely for a while now.

I'm not sure this will be of much help to those of you who use that sweetened yeast.
However I've just put another 14 litres of cider on using Mangrove Jacks yeast.
I bought a couple of these. I added lemon and lemon vest to this cider.
I put the vest and a few chucks of lemon in the mesh ball. Hopefully when I syphon
it off to bulk prime it all the yeast will be relatively clean and I'll use it again.

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I reuse my cider yeast just as you've described here with much success. I use a bit of stevia if I want some sweetness. Sometimes I just siphon off one lot of cider and chuck in juice for the next batch straight onto the yeast cake. Works great.
 
I reuse my cider yeast just as you've described here with much success. I use a bit of stevia if I want some sweetness. Sometimes I just siphon off one lot of cider and chuck in juice for the next batch straight onto the yeast cake. Works great.

I was going to do that with my next lot of cider. That's why I put the lemon in the stainless steel cage.
 

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