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Date / Time: Thursday, May 7th, 2020 at 2:00 pm MDT - 3:00 pm MDT (add to calendar) Event type: Event held online Price: Free Register / View: Demystifying Diastaticus: An Exposé of Everyone’s Favorite Explosive Yeast
The neon lights of Vegas and the 2024 Craft Brewers Conference are in the rearview mirror and brewers and industry professionals will soon set their sights on Indianapolis, home of next year’s conference.
“We are planning, and the events team will be heading out there for a site visit in July,” said Ann Obenchain, the Brewers Association Vice President of Marketing and Communications, just prior to the Las Vegas conference. (more...)
Speaker: Matt Linske
This seminar will include a brief history of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus, followed by an exploration of the impact on the modern brewing industry and an overview of detection methods from plating to PCR.
Learning Objectives:
Provide an understanding of how the metabolism in STA1 positive yeast are different from typical brewing yeast strains Address past and current research on where contamination occurs Discuss the use of selective media for isolation of colonies Get a quick overview on PCR techniques and the importance of the method for detection
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