harvesting yeast from bottom of keg

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Hi Shibolet

I can't see why not, its just the same as collecting yeast from the bottom of a bottle conditioned beer.
Are you drinking it now and near the end? or have you a while to wait until its finished?
I'm asking because I was thinking how you could get a sample of yeast if you were yet to finish the keg.
You could give it a shake and pour a sample into a sanatised vessel and leave to settle. The down side is you'll hav to wait for your beer to clear again

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Hi Shib

If your near the end I'd wait until its all gone so
I would then use a yeast recovery/washing tecnique as if you were recovering some yeast from FV slurry.




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This is a really interesting and original topic shib . I have never seen it posted anywhere before so good on you .

I can see a lot of advantages to this for several brewers. For example, there might be some beers you like to brew but drink very slowly over 6 to 12 months. These brews might have required an expensive liquid yeast. Maintaining a yeast for this length of time with other methods is a PITA. Building it up from the remains of your keg is really worth investigating.

Some random thoughts...

I suspect that you will be 'harvesting' the most viable yeast.
I would 'harvest' the yeast using chilled, boiled water.
Not too sure how much you will get and how much stepping up it would need?

I think you may be on to a revolutionary method of yeast harvesting shib. Love your idea and I can't see any obvious holes in it.

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