Brewenstein
Well-Known Member
So I've been reading through some of the LoDO information here and trying to get my head around it. For now I am limited by my cold side techniques, and these are what I want to work on first, especially because without them any hot side work will be mostly moot. One of the seemingly easier things I can do is to transfer to kegs before final gravity to help with any residual O2 in the kegs as well as to decrease any O2 exposure from the slight amount of O2 that I understand is still in the CO2. My question is how to determine when I am the 3-4 gravity points away from FG without actually opening the fermenter to draw a sample. At present I don't have the ability to spund.
On a side note, if one transfers before FG and the yeast drops, can the yeast left in the primary still be used for pitching into a new batch of wort? Or will this result in too much selective breeding for better flocculating yeast?
On a side note, if one transfers before FG and the yeast drops, can the yeast left in the primary still be used for pitching into a new batch of wort? Or will this result in too much selective breeding for better flocculating yeast?