
Yeast Viability and Reuse with Chris White – BeerSmith Podcast #280
BeerSmith Home and Beer Brewing Podcast
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How to Store Your Yeast Properly
You're trying to trick the yeast into this dormant phase, right? So you've done a healthy fermentation. Hopefully it's supplemented your fermentation with zinc. That's really going to help so many things in beer, but including yeast viability. And then you collect the yeast quickly after fermentation, after reaching terminal gravity,. Really ideally with the one day of terminal gravity. You might want to burp it the first day or two if there's CO2 in there.CO2 trapped in the yeast will degrade the viability as well because it's toxic to yeast. But for yeast, you want to store it cold. Because at the end of fermentation, yeast stored, when there's just a little
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