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Having a high quality microscope is certainly useful for monitoring the quality of yeast in culture. Besides looking for obvious bacterial contaminants and performing yeast cell counts, what do microbiologists use the microscope for in a yeast lab? How can we as homebrewers use our microscopes...

According to Alan Pugsley of Shipyard Brewing, Ringwood ale yeast is actually a multi-strain yeast and that the strains have to be grown up separately and blended in the right proportions at the right time. I've also read that the Ringwood strain is a combination of two strains. One strain is...

Does anyone know the color of Anchor Porter? I'm trying to produce a clone and would like to start from some actual (no guessing) values of its specifications.

I have a Matheson one-stage, two-guage regulator on my 20 lb tank of CO2. The tank pressure reads between 600 and 750 psi. When I pressurize a Cornelius tank with this, the outlet pressure cannot be set to greater than about 10 psi. The outlet pressure guage dial has a range of 0-30 psi. The...

Can anyone confirm which brand of keg (Firestone vs. Cornelius) the 12-point, star-shaped posts are intended for? They look more like Firestone-style posts, but I have seen these put onto (perhaps forced onto) Cornelius kegs.