Article on Yeast (for the yeast ranchers)

[djii]

This has cool info, not a lot of general application but good reading for the people wanting to control mutation in their germ lines.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... tants.html

[scotchpine]

Opportunist yeasts on welfare

[alan_marks]

So, this explains Congress...

A group bonded together to suck the life out of the rest of us!

Alan

[jeffjm]

The article says "The researchers found that clumping yeast could consume significantly more sucrose than the free-living variety,
giving them a clear competitive advantage."

So how come the Fuller's strain, which flocculates when you look at it too long, has less attenuation than almost any other strain?

[biertourist]

The article says "The researchers found that clumping yeast could consume significantly more sucrose than the free-living variety,
giving them a clear competitive advantage."

So how come the Fuller's strain, which flocculates when you look at it too long, has less attenuation than almost any other strain?

Correlation does not prove causation.

These could be two independent attributes of the Fuller's strain, no?


Adam

[Wutz]

So how come the Fuller's strain, which flocculates when you look at it too long, has less attenuation than almost any other strain?

On the other hand, White Labs 007 flocs and drops faster than a lot of my college girlfriends' pants and has a rather high attenuation percentage.

I'd attribute both of those sets of traits to individual strain characteristics. I'm no microbiologist, though, so I don't actually know anything.