Yeast Washing for Slackers

I’m not sure if this is a step further, but I have a boil screen in my boil kettle and a double mesh strainer going into my fermenter, plus in the boil I use a double mesh bag with high alpha German (typically Merkur or Herkules) hop strains to reduce the hop residue that passes through (one ounce will work for a 10 gallon batch of standard lager). I get no green gunk in the fermenter, don’t have to make starters and always have enough yeast to pitch (half a cake stored, typically, per bag) waiting in a nice plastic ziplock in my lager chest! No muss, no fuss and no clean up!

:cheers:

Well, I went ahead and did it. I “washed” though. Really wasn’t that much extra effort to boil and cool some water. I needed the extra liquid to swirl the yeast cake into suspension, so I could pour it out of my carboy.

Looks good so far. Planning to use one container in a breakfast stout I’ll be brewing next weekend. I’m pretty stoked to be saving $9 on yeast.