How Many Cells in a Yeast Slurry. Anyone Use This Method?
So I wandered headfirst into a rabbit hole today with the help of Google Search. The quest was for a simple answer as to methods for estimating yeast cell counts in a slurry derived from an over-built starter. That number is almost always the entering argument for any of the many yeast pitch...

New Yeast Strain Chart! Searchable and Sortable
Okay all, looking for some feedback! I realized over the past couple of years there have been a number of new yeast labs popping up with offerings to homebrewers. Many of the current resources available online have not been updated to include the new yeast labs, and also seem to be lacking...

Comprehensive Guide to Yeast Storage and Starter Culture for ...
The yeast should be incubated for about 24-36 hours, under continuous or periodic agitation, and your starter culture will be ready! But what about yeast storage, as mentioned earlier? In the lab where I work, a commonly used technique is the Castellani method (storing a piece of culture medium with water in a sealed glass tube).

Recommended yeast for root beer and process question
My gnome root beer extract does not specify which yeast to use. Any recommendations? The directions call for a 2 hour freezing after the 2 day carbonation before placing this in the fridge. Won't my root beer freeze?

Guide to Yeast Slurry, Yeast Starter, Viability Pictorial
After much, much, much reading, I believe I now have a way to figure out how much viable yeast I have when using a cold stored rinsed jar of yeast, and how to apply that information to the yeast calculators Mrmalty and YeastCalc to find how many steps is required to achieve the appropriate...

Dry Yeast, Liquid Yeast Equivalents - Homebrew Talk
Does anyone know of a resource similar to this yeast comparison chart, but for dry yeast? That is, what are the equivalent strains of White Labs and Wyeast...

Reusing yeast | Homebrew Talk - Beer, Wine, Mead, & Cider Brewing ...
If I wanted to reuse yeast every time I brew, I have heard that you don’t want to use the full cake for your next batch. I originally was planning to ferment in a keg and reuse the same yeast without opening the keg between batches. Now I’m wondering what the best option is. If I have just...

Yeast Energizer? How is the best way to use it? - Homebrew Talk
The Original Gravity was 1.065, and it would seem the yeast has begun to slow to a halt as far as fermentation goes. Best practice, is it better to transfer the beer into the secondary fermenter and add a teaspoon of yeast energizer to the secondary and skim some yeast off the bottom of the primary to mix into the secondary?

Favorite Lager Yeast | Homebrew Talk - Beer, Wine, Mead, & Cider ...
There are some yeast performance differences such as WY2206 floccs much better than wlp833 but that point becomes moot if you are willing to do a proper lager period. I like WLP830 and mexican lager strains for crisp, pils style beers but think it creates too thin of a beer for a helles and the likes. I have WLP800 going right now for the first ...

Best substitute for Yorkshire Ale (Wyeast 1469/WLP037)
I want to brew a Timothy Taylor's Landlord clone, but cannot get Yorkshire Ale Yeast. I can however get WLP English Ale, WLP English Dry, WLP British Ale, and Lallemand Windsor. Can anyone recommend the best substitute? I can't get any Wyeast varieties.