Agar Plates can be used to streak and isolate yeast strains for your brewing. Instead of buying these agar plates, Brew Your Own Magazine’s Technical Editor Ashton Lewis shows you how to easily and cost-effectively make your own agar plates at home. From preparing the agar medium to pouring the plates, Ashton walks you through step-by-step so you can always have your own supply of plates handy for finding and isolating yeast strains for future brewing experiments.
Knowing the viability of your yeast is key to running strong beer fermentations especially when you are reusing yeast from a prior batch. The traditional way to count yeast cells requires a
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