Wheat beers are among the most popular beer styles in the...
Wheat beers are among the most popular beer styles in the world, and now you can brew great wheat...
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Viablility, Fructose Metabolism, and Acid Production
Yeast viability drop during storage and measurement methods To make a long story short, last year I did some experiments and viability drop tests with the methylene staining procedure and I posted the results to this list for comments some time ago, and come up with to my limited understanding some conclusions but I really would like your more authoritative opinion on this.
Crabtree Effect and Overflow Metabolism
Clayton Cone has explained that if have more than 0.2% glucose in our starters that we cannot expect any cell wall improvement even in the presence of oxygen, since the mechanism changes from a Pasteur Effect to a Crabtree effect.. Presumably the addition of oxygen to our wort at the beginning of the fermentation will likewise make no sense.