Traditionally I have used cooled boiled water to do a yeast wash. Is it possible to use sterilized or purified water instead? I am just looking at shaving some time off of the process.
Thanks,
Z
Thanks,
Z
I used distilled water last time I washed my yeast and it looks a lot better than the batches I did before (1 with boiled/cooled filtered water, 1 with filtered tap water that I didn't boil/cool).
Have you tried out the yeast that you washed with Distilled water? Schweet. I am going to try it out tonight. Thanks for the info. It is going to make my life so much easier
I've heard that distilled water is very hard on yeast. Since there are no minerals or anything in it, it can burst the cell walls of the yeast due to osmotic pressure.
Ok. so much for making my life easier...lol
This is correct, the water will rush into the cell to equilibrate the difference between the salt content inside the cell and out
If you were wanting to use storebought water, just use bottled drinking water rather than distilled.
but what about the O2 in the water?
It's actually the other way around (high concentration to low concentration) but same outcome.
BTW I need to get on yeast washing to start harvesting some 1056.
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