Does oak carry through on next generation yeast?

[scotchpine]

If oaking a batch without removing it from the yeast cake, will it carry through if the yeast is reused, even after rinsing? I had cloves carry over this way once, but that was before I was rinsing my yeast first.

[brewinhard]

How long are you talking about aging the beer on the oak for? How much and what level toast? If you are aging the beer on the oak for a while I don't think you would want to reuse the yeast anyway as the viability will be fairly decreased.

[scotchpine]

I'll only be leaving it on the oak a week or less and probably will be removing it from yeast first anyway. I was just curious. I'm using 1oz of light toasted Am oak chips.

[BrewerJ]

I think you will be fine unless your repitching on the whole yeast cake and making a light beer. Oak takes a little time to carry through to the beer.