Commercial Slants?

[LBussy]

Does anyone stock/sell reasonably priced sterile slants? I will have the opportunity to collect some yeast before I have the opportunity to collect the supplies needed to make slants. I figure if I can get 10 or so slants in the fridge I won't lose these opportunities.

 

[LBussy]

Bueler?

 

[jester5120]

I've never heard of premade slants but check at science/lab equipment sales store. They might have premade slants and Petri dishes

 

[Jukas]

Morebeer does, but I don't really consider them to be reasonably priced.

http://morebeer.com/view_product/19903//Slants_-_Malt_Agar_Filled

For the price of 10 of them you could easily buy 12-24 autoclavable vials from cynmar as well as the agar from amazon, and maybe even a pressure cooker.

 

[LBussy]

Egads ... yeah that's a little dear.

I did find some pre-made plates on Amazon (of course) which might come in handy:

EZ BioResearch Pre-poured Agar Plates and Swabs, 10 plates & 10 swabs
http://tinyurl.com/bgcy2c5

And there's a store on Amazon that has some slants called "nutrient" slants ... but a pretty interesting store for a yeast farmer:

http://tinyurl.com/9wkcalj

White Labs lists slants for $3.37 each, item number TK3310.

Still ... kinda pricey I guess.

 

[Jukas]

I couldn't find the slants on white labs page (granted I didn't look extremely hard) but my guess is at that price they're single use disposable slants. Plates aren't the best choice for long term storage, but if you were going to get the equipment within a few weeks, to a month they could probably work. You would lose the benefit of being able to proof out single colonies from the plate by that point. Once you got done with factoring in shipping those plates would be $2.10 each so if you needed longer term storage the extra $1.20 for the WL slants would probably be worth it. Also I wouldn't use a sterile swab included with those plates if you're harvesting from a bottle or starter, it would make it impossible to get a small enough quanity of yeast to get a good plating. So figure another $2-5 bucks for an Inoculation Loop or stab.

Are any of these yeast 'opportunities' strains that would be difficult or impossible to get again in the future?

 

[LBussy]

No not at all ... I just hate pitching and then tossing a vial once knowing if I was prepared I could get some additional use out of it. I could always wash/re-use but I'd prefer to have a stash of "first generation" stuff to fall back to.

You know ... OCD ... check the tagline.

On the White Labs page there's three tabs up top and it's on the third one I think.

 

[jeuentes]

This prolly what your looking for. Good write up. Seems easy enough. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/slanting-yeast-133103/