Rousing Refrigerated Yeast

[Mtn Minor]

I've kept left over 2nd runnings for weeks in a sterile mason jar. You can either reboil or sanitize the rim, pour into your flask and pitch. If for some reason I don't brew next day, it will keep in the fridge for up to a week or so.

[scotchpine]

Thanks for the reply. An update on my 1272 repitch with last runnings: At 6pm last night I call my wife on my way to a meeting and ask her to check it. She said the air lock blew off and foam is comming up through. I talked her through sanitizing my blow off hose and putting it in the carboy to a pot with sanitizer in it. She's a real sport. She calls me back while I'm in the meeting and says that the beer is comming out of the hose into the pot. I had left what I thought was enough headspace but forgot to buy Firmcap, it's now at the top of my list. I came home to find the blowoff pot on top of my stack of BYO mags, soaked with beer! I did'nt ask. Looks like about 30% of the batch left the fermenter! Don't know if she had some kinda siphon thing going on or what. She seemed as concerned as I was about it, but told her not to worry about it. SWMBO: Sexy Wife Mother & Brewing Officer. I think I'll keep her

[scotchpine]

Well, in case anyone was wondering how that much beer would come out of the carboy, here it is. Wife missunderstood me over the phone when I said to put the blowoff hose into the mouth of the carboy about an inch, and to put the other end below the surface of the liquid sanitizer in the pot. She put the hose several inches below the surface of the beer The CO2 just pushed all that beer out. I'm just happy to still have 65% of the beer left, I guess. Smells really good.