Washing yeast makes sense to most homebrewers. Yeast is one of the most important ingredients in your beer, and sometimes one of the most expensive.If you must purchase a new packet or vial of yeast for each beer you make it gets expensive. One way to reduce costs is to reuse your yeast. If you don’

Generally for a fermentation vessel, the yeast gather at the top and bottom of the fermentation broth, but if you give the yeast enough time, they will all run to the bottom of the fermenter and wait for you to collect as much as possible.

Collecting and reusing yeast from a fermented batch of beer is common practice among home and professional brewers. In fact, records show it has been done since the 12th century, with some saying it likely occurred thousands of years before that. For the modern homebrewer, harvesting and repitching