Storing Yeast Cultures In Sterile Distilled Water

[defrandj1]

Hello all,

I have been slanting yeast for a couple months now, and earlier today I came across an article about storing yeast in sterile Distilled water versus on a slant. The benefit being the ability to store for much longer periods of time without refrigeration. The thought being that the yeast just go dormant having to food source- ergo, not mutating.

Does anyone use this method? Any other thoughts?

 

[day_trippr]

A link to the article might be worthwhile.

It's surprising that anyone would recommend using distilled water to suspend yeast, as it's clearly not good for them when trying to bring them back to life...

Cheers!

 

[defrandj1]

http://www.brewery.org/brewery/library/SterileDW1096.html

 

[day_trippr]

https://eurekabrewing.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/yeast-banking-3-isotonic-sodium-chloride/