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When people talk about "temperature control" they normally mean "a fridge" not "timing your brew with the Earth's progression around the sun"

Lovely clear second beer!

You'll never stop yeast sticking to a spindle/tilt/pill. Even the smooth sides under the surface have yeast build up on them (you can see this when you pull out out)

It takes me about 5 seconds with a funnel and teaspoon. 5x longer than a zevro but the 4s difference really doesn't make any difference to me at all.

I thought it was much faster than that - within a few hours

I remember a story about someone in Europe who painted penises around potholes to get the city to fix then quicker!

Good to know. I have feared the diastaticus yeast contamination as I brew a Saison quite regularly, and only have the one fermenter. I found a nice way of getting a lot of comfort in killing off any contaminating yeast though...

I'm also trying mashbag's idea of just freezing the yeast slurry. I'll probably pull it out in 6 months and see how it works

Not entirely sure. I'm fairly laissez-faire about it all. I haven't repitched into the yeast cake in years as I don't brew often enough. But from memory I probably left about a third of the yeast cake for the second back, or maybe about a cup? Give it a good old shake as it'll need oxygen to...

Sanitise a spoon, scoop a bunch of the yeast cake out and chuck it away (or keep it) and then repitch onto what remains

That sounds close enough. I did a similar thing with mine recently. As Scotty says, it'll never be completely accurate so just use it as a guide for when fermentation is over (slope of graph rather than actual figures). Over the course of the next few brews, keep a note of the tilt angle at...

I don't.

take the skin off the pineapple, roll in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar and then barbecue it. Delicious

Do you use a fresh solution for every bottle? Or transfer from one to another as you empty a second bottle? I'm thinking of doing the same, but tend to only have one per night and don't know how long different cleaning solutions last

Might not be yeast then. I'd always just assumed it was without any serious thought.