Timeline for How Much (and How Fast) of a Drop in Temperature can (Ale) Yeast Tolerate? (And Preliminary Results from My Experiment)
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 21:01 | history | edited | dax | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
mdma showed me the light
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 19:54 | comment | added | mdma | Dormant and dead are not the same in practice - you can easily harvest and repitch dormant yeast after primary is done, but not if they are dead, and dead yeast will impart a yeast bite to the beer. I didn't downvote, but I suggest you edit your answer before someone else does! :) | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 17:07 | comment | added | dax | does that have the same effect for practical purposes though? unless it's very early on in fermentation, if they went dormant would the resources be there to allow them to 'wake up'? | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 17:01 | comment | added | mdma | "dropping out" doesn't mean killing the yeast, it means making them to go dormant. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 14:25 | history | answered | dax | CC BY-SA 3.0 |