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Offline flbrewer

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Brett and Lacto levels
« on: June 17, 2015, 04:06:57 pm »
Do the levels of yeast in these settled vials look low to you? Is this normal for brett and lacto to have this small amount of sediment in the vial?

I don't recall brewers yeast in the vial looking like this.



Offline wsoublo

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Re: Brett and Lacto levels
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2015, 04:27:40 pm »
The sach strains have close to 100 billion cells while the brett/lacto strains have 2-3 billion.

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The single-strain Brettanomyces tubes and bacteria tubes that White Labs sells to homebrewers have far fewer cells than those from Wyeast, only 50– 80 million cells per milliliter in a 35 mL homebrew tube (1.8– 2.7 billion cells total);
- "American Sour Beers"
« Last Edit: June 17, 2015, 04:29:45 pm by wsoublo »

Offline Stevie

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Re: Brett and Lacto levels
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2015, 04:51:22 pm »
Yep, normal

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Re: Brett and Lacto levels
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2015, 07:24:24 am »
Totally normal for White Labs.  That is why, when I can, use Wyeast brett and bacteria cultures to start with.  Simply more cells.