rsmith179
Well-Known Member
Love the new brew science channel. The questions is regarding yeast generations: how are those measured exactly? In other words, I'm going to limit myself to a certain number of generations of washing/top cropping before starting over.
For all intensive purposes, would each pitch be considered one generation? I was kind of thinking that each time you feed the yeast, another generation goes by.
Example: Start with a vial of White Labs yeast (1st Generation). Pitch into starter (2nd Generation). Pitch into Primary (3rd-? Generations...).
As you can tell, I'm utterly confused regarding the "genealogy" of yeast...
For all intensive purposes, would each pitch be considered one generation? I was kind of thinking that each time you feed the yeast, another generation goes by.
Example: Start with a vial of White Labs yeast (1st Generation). Pitch into starter (2nd Generation). Pitch into Primary (3rd-? Generations...).
As you can tell, I'm utterly confused regarding the "genealogy" of yeast...