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Offline roffenburger

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Yeast starter/population lab work
« on: February 16, 2011, 04:20:42 pm »
There has been discussion lately about yeast starter population, dry yeast, and other related stuff lately.

If I were to do some lab work surrounding these topics, what would you like to see?
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Re: Yeast starter/population lab work
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2011, 05:35:58 pm »
Wow no takers?

Roffy what did you have on your mind?
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Re: Yeast starter/population lab work
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2011, 05:39:54 pm »
I've been wanting to see if the 40% viability figure for rehydrating dry yeast in wort is accurate. I'm waiting on a lab supply order for some methylene blue...
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Re: Yeast starter/population lab work
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2011, 06:41:37 pm »
I've been trying to find yeast growth rate formulas that I could use to build a spreadsheet to help estimate growth in multi-step starters.
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Re: Yeast starter/population lab work
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2011, 09:56:56 am »
I've been wanting to see if the 40% viability figure for rehydrating dry yeast in wort is accurate. I'm waiting on a lab supply order for some methylene blue...
Have you already ordered? I can send you some powder.

Are you going to be testing a specific strain or manufacturer?
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Re: Yeast starter/population lab work
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2011, 10:39:47 am »
Have you already ordered? I can send you some powder.

Are you going to be testing a specific strain or manufacturer?

Thanks for the offer, but we're going to be placing a pretty large BSI order soon anyway. As far as strains, it'll be US-05 and W-34/70 since those are what we use for all our year-round beers.
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