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No sorry Rph it didn't help at all but thanks for contributing. Take a look here to enlighten yourself: https://www.lambic.info/Microbiology_and_Biochemistry#Stages_of_Lambic_fermentation Essentially there is a progression of dominance from a microbiological standpoint in lambic. It's present...

1)Doing 15 gallons of Lambic inspired beer in an oak barrel. How long are you guys waiting to remove the airlock and hard bung it? Initial fermentation and the disgusting aged hop krausen are gone. It's been in a month. 2) Can you solera a Lambic cask and get somewhat repeatable results...

Found it. Their website kind of sucks http://cynmar.com/vials/19091-VIALS-KIMAX-GLS-PTFE-LINED-CAPS-23x85mm-10PK.html This is what I use for slants. PTFE lined resin caps and borosillicate glass. Overkill on size but I like them.

It might take me a while to find a link but basically the kimax resin top vials will handle the heat.

I'll check it out. I'm gay for new media types.

I've never seen LAB grow on anything better than MRS, even somewhat fastidious **** like Pedio....I don't even bother with an anaerobic environment it works so well for most of the strains I utilize.

WLD agar is super good at this cuz it is selective for non-sacc strains and differential due to pH based color changes.... or as stated above just add cyclohexamide (yeastman sells it) to PDA media. Then subculture according to colony morphology. Investigate further with microsopy, gram...

Side note I've found through some of my research and wrangling.... plus backed up by some literature (don't ask me for a citation... I'm not digging one up).... It seems as if Brett needs to be reslanted significantly sooner than Sacc to keep viability decent at 36F/2C on UBA. Still looking...

Ugh 6k is too much.... woe is me.

Oh where did you score the - 70 deep freeze at? Cost? Deets plz

Alarm... hahaha I like it

I autoclave my wort mixture in reagent bottles 50% full then once cool (and needing sterile wort), I manually pipette out what volumes needed....being careful and keeping the stock bottle sterile. I've had a stock bottle of wort for 2 months before. There's a significant amount of break...

I don't use water to top um

This is more common a problem I believe using a pressure cooker style of sterilization vs a truly automated autoclave. Pressure releases too quickly. When I make LAB broth to propigate bugs for a big kettle sour pitch (glucose, dme, dap and calcium carbonate) it always boils over making a...

he's got a bomb, lookout!