A Beautiful Sight
Eighteen new yeasts, all on agar, ready to be grown up and frozen down in the yeast bank. Where did
Read moreAdventures in Yeast Wrangling
Posts on yeast-wrangling expeditions and tests of wild and engineered yeasts.
We’ve Gone International! (AKA, A big thank you to my viewers)
I don’t often look at my blog stats. I should, they tell an interesting story. Turns out I have quite
Read moreMailing Yeast Part II
The original “lab-based” mailers in action I am happy to announce that my post on mailing yeasts has been well
Read moreAnother Wild Yeast Identification Test
Micrograph of the Wild Yeast (left) versus conventional ale yeast (right) Over a series of posts, listed below, I’ve covered
Read moreResults: First Wild Yeast Hunt
Thirteen mini-ferments on the go! A few weeks ago I brewed a Blonde ale. This batch was slightly oversized, in
Read moreFirst Wild Yeast Hunt
I’ve been hush-hush on my wild yeast hunt, aside from a few posts on the methodologies I was planning on
Read moreIdentifying Wild Yeast Part Deux
From XKCD.com So my first go at identifying wild yeast using ITS sequencing did not work as well as I
Read moreYeast Identification Test
A short while ago I wrote a post on a fairly technical method to identify wild (and not-so-wild) yeast. This
Read moreMailing Yeast
A yeast mailer loaded & read-to-roll One problem faced by many yeast banks is the sharing of yeasts over long
Read moreIdentifying Yeasts Using Ribosomal Sequencing
A ribosome doing its thing. From Wikipedia So a few weeks ago I wrote a post about how to identify
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