Yeast Cell Counts and Hemocytometer Dilution

[a10t2]

Hah yeah, I suppose yeast are eukaryotic, not being plants and all.

All plants, animals, and fungi are eukaryotes. The only non-eukaryotes are the true bacteria and archea, which are so weird they could plausibly represent a second, independent origin of life. </geek>

Your crashing regimen sounds fine to me. Unless they're actually freezing, cold temperatures should prolong yeast health.

[LongLiveLagers]

Russ,

I used to crash to 45, then to 40 and harvest. After harvesting I would flip the beer like you do, but my yeasts (koelsch and 34/70) would flocc just fine at 40.

Kevin

[Bainbridge]

@a10t2 - Yep, I stand corrected. Derp. (Liberal Arts major) Think I'll still call them little mammalians though.

Hmmm, maybe we'll start trying that then Kevin. We only started doing cell counts a little while back, so I don't have a long log of them yet. But tomorrow we're going cone to cone and I'll pull a sample and take a look at it after it's freshly flocc'd all on its own vs. being crashed.