Great Yeast Issue

[haerbob3]

Brew Your Own has some great articles on yeast in the September issue. Washing, pros & cons of pitching on a yeast cake, starters, and of course pitching rates. A nice primer on yeasties in general check it out

[dad2all5]

Thanks, Ill have to try and get a copy.

[Crazy Climber]

I was reading Chris White's essay in that issue over breakfast this morning. Very technical, but I found the diacetyl discussion interesting. Seems to indicate that those who rack to a secondary may want to wait until after day-12, so that there's enough yeast to clean up the diacetyl prior to then. But, I want to research further. Maybe if you rack after 1 week, there's still plenty of active yeast suspended to do the job; I don't know.

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[BigPapaG]

I'm inclined to agree with him...

Now I don't generally rack my beers to a secondary... When I do, it is because of an addition or commando hops or I totally screwed up and transferred too much gunk from the boil.

I have also never had a DMS issue...

Having said that, of all the beers that I do not rack, there is a clear date range that seems to occur at around day 15-16 where the beer gets significantly clearer that it was early on.

This tells me that more yeast is dropping out of suspension around that time...

So, day 12-13 or later sounds about right to me...