ElChangoGuero
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Ive been thinking about a way to properly store the same yeast without having to mix it with different types of beer, what i am going to try is to buy a clean yeast pack and oversize a starter so i have enough cells for my beer and have 100 billion cells left so i can store in the fridge with the same 1.040 worth.
I would say it would be storing these maybe 1 or maybe 2 months before i use them again, now when the cell count goes down from 100 billion to 50 billion (in around 17 days according to Mr. Malty) i would do a starter to step it up to 100 billion cells again.
The problem im thinking about, and i dont know if im right or wrong, but i would think that i would need to track the age of the new and old cells, like in the previous example 50 would be NEW and 50 would be OLD, if thats the case, what happens when there is 5-10 generations that you need to keep track of? would it really be a close approximation?
And another issue ive heard is that the 1st generation of yeast isnt really that great most of the time, so you really want the 2nd one that is trained for your beer.
Hope to see what you guys have to say, cheers!
I would say it would be storing these maybe 1 or maybe 2 months before i use them again, now when the cell count goes down from 100 billion to 50 billion (in around 17 days according to Mr. Malty) i would do a starter to step it up to 100 billion cells again.
The problem im thinking about, and i dont know if im right or wrong, but i would think that i would need to track the age of the new and old cells, like in the previous example 50 would be NEW and 50 would be OLD, if thats the case, what happens when there is 5-10 generations that you need to keep track of? would it really be a close approximation?
And another issue ive heard is that the 1st generation of yeast isnt really that great most of the time, so you really want the 2nd one that is trained for your beer.
Hope to see what you guys have to say, cheers!