MSc. Project Archives

The Brettanomyces Master’s Project took 18 months to complete from start to finish. While it might not have taken so long had I not been working 40+ hours a week as a brewer for nine of those months, I still managed to complete the work finishing all the writing and submitting the dissertation on July 23rd, 2010. The following is an open source look at the lab work and some of the results as they transpired along with an occasional update on the structuring of the project. There is an abundance of lab work including culturing methods, media agar recipes and photos of giant colony morphologies and yeast cells which could greatly aid any brewing lab trying to maintain cultures and wanting to compare strains. Enjoy! –Chad Y.

February 1, 2009 • The Beginning of something WILD
February 3, 2009 • Lab Preparations
February 4, 2009 • Inoculating and Culturing the Dregs of Avery 15
February 9, 2009 • Avery 15 Culture Plates
February 12, 2009 • Propagation Observation
February 16, 2009 • Choosing Selective Agar Medias
February 19, 2009 • Inoculation for Pure Culture Confirmation
February 23, 2009 • One Brett So Many Plates
March 5, 2009 • White Labs Brettanomyces Strains
March 6, 2009 • WLN Agar Medium
March 13, 2009 • Fun with White Labs
March 18, 2009 • Day in the Pilot Brewery
April 6, 2009 • Two for One Brettanomyces Strains
April 12, 2009 • Project Updates
April 20, 2009 • The Many Faces of Brettanomyces
April 30, 2009 • Media Cultureablity of Brettanomyces Species
May 6, 2009 • Wyeast to the Rescue
May 15, 2009 • Propagations Standardized
July 27, 2009 • Propagation Data and Graphs
August 8, 2009 • MYPG Compared to Wort as a Growth Substrate
October 1, 2009 • Species Identification
October 8, 2009 • Research Methodology for Pure Culture Fermentation
November 1, 2009 • Brettanomyces Research Fermentation Photos
December 3, 2009 • Data Collection Methods of Analysis
June 30, 2010 • Brettanomyces Yeast Cell Images
July 23, 2010 • Dissertation Submitted