New brewery here, almost open. 4BBL system with 8 & 12BBL FV's. Coming from much smaller scale where yeast cost wasn't much of an issue. Wyeast 1318 is the house strain. Highly flocculant but true top crop yeast, in my experience.
I'm worried about yeast harvesting with heavily dry hopped beers and particularly double dry hopped beers with the first charge at 2-3P before full attenuation. Does anybody have an SOP for harvesting a yeast like this when double dry hopping, i.e. one dry hop during primary? My typical dry hop in primary is relatively small at maybe .35-.5#/bbl. Would I be fine doing the semi chill to ~60F after primary and harvesting yeast with that little bit of hops in it, before the second dry hop? Then dry hop at 60?
I don't see many options. Please help! Thanks!
I'm worried about yeast harvesting with heavily dry hopped beers and particularly double dry hopped beers with the first charge at 2-3P before full attenuation. Does anybody have an SOP for harvesting a yeast like this when double dry hopping, i.e. one dry hop during primary? My typical dry hop in primary is relatively small at maybe .35-.5#/bbl. Would I be fine doing the semi chill to ~60F after primary and harvesting yeast with that little bit of hops in it, before the second dry hop? Then dry hop at 60?
I don't see many options. Please help! Thanks!
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