Step Up Your Starters: Insight into Yeast Propagation for Homebrewers

This presentation, intended for advanced homebrewers, will not be your ordinary talk about making yeast starters and how they can improve your beer. Drawing on research in yeast growth and fermentation performance , this seminar will provide insight into how yeast grows and what affects yeast growth and health in starters. A simple model for predicting yeast growth will be discussed, as well as propagation techniques for optimal yeast health.