Kettle Souring
Kettle Souring By Carli Severson Microtechnologist The Brewing Science Institute If you have been to a liquor store or brewery recently, chances are you have come across sour beers. Sour…
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Lager Yeast and Fermentation – The Right Way
Lager Yeast and Fermentation In this blog, we will discuss some of the core elements of lager yeast and fermentation. Although we will only scratch the surface of this subject,…
Read More Getting to Know Your Lacto
Getting to Know Your Lacto There’s never been a better time to start getting to know your lacto. Thanks to American Craft Brewers, sour beers, a once dying style, are…
Read More Basic Brewing Microbiology
Basic Brewing Microbiology Unlike traditional breweries, most craft breweries are not designed by brewery engineers or brewing microbiologists. As such, brewhouse and fermentation are very often housed in the same…
Read More Cleaning and Sanitizing in the Brewery
Cleaning & Sanitizing in the Brewery Cleaning and sanitizing in the brewery take energy. You can use mechanical energy. You can use chemical energy. You can even use a combination…
Read More LAB for Sour Beers
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have many practical uses in the production of sour beers. Although souring beer is a method of “controlled spoilage” – just like yeast, bacteria require specific…
Read More Beer Spoilage Organisms
Beer Spoilage Organisms by Katelyn Nishimoto, BSI Microbiologist Making quality beer is a dynamic and rewarding experience that incorporates the living world around us. First and foremost, successful brewing can…
Read More Beer Contamination Testing
Beer Contamination Testing By Kory Davis QC & Propagation Specialist The Brewing Science Institute Not only is beer delicious, it has also been pivotal for mankind’s survival. Due to beer’s…
Read More Yeast Stress & Viability
Yeast Stress & Viability Yeast stress is a vast topic that is nowhere near being fully understood, however, to begin scientists have come up with different ways to measure it.…
Read More LMDA – Lee’s Multi-Differential Agar
LMDA – Lee’s Multi-Differential Agar By Carli Severson Microtechnologist The Brewing Science Institute In a perfect world, a brewer would only have one organism, the culture yeast, present during fermentation.…
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