Hello everyone, I am new to the site. But have spent alot of time reading your posts, alot of them ( if not all ) I haqve found enjoying, filled with information and alot of personality . You all seem to be a great bunch of people here.
I found fine wines and it is one store I will never want to lose.
In my research, quest to calm idle hand syndrome of constantly having to have my nose deep into information like a mr wizard that drank way to much coffee, I found some interesting science about yeast and it blows my mind thinking about their life cycle.
I been researching the yeasts to find out where it first came from, how they are producing it for commercial use and what is the difference between yeasts. ( which was my biggest reason for the searching ) from bread yeasts to wine yeasts to ale yeasts so on and so forth.
The cool science behind all of this wine making,
on average 1 gram of yeast contains 30 billion yeast cells. so in a 5 gram pack WOW !. Thats just to start.
Lets say for simple math we start with 1 yeast cell. Every 2 hours a yeast cell will produce daughter cell. and this mother cell will produce on average 12 daughters before the cell dies off.
so if we take ONE cell
Hours - number of cells
0 - 1
2 - 2
4 - 4
6 - 8
8 - 16
10 - 32
12 - 64
14 - 128
16 - 256
18 - 512
20 - 1024
22 - 2048
24 - 4096
I notice a binary trait here, so were the first binary developers nothing more then wine brewers ?? haha
so by the time the very first yeast cell dies off after its 12th reproduction, there are now 4096 in a 24 hour time.
It's a shame there is no real hard numbers since there are so many varibles in regards to each packet of yeast we get will have X amount of dead cells that will not regenerate after centerfuging and storage, then other X amount in that pack could already have been suspended on its first or 11th reproduction, and dont forget to factor in our concentrate/most factors that may kill some off.
but if we could take those numbers without varibles and anticipate each cell lived to it's fullest, imagine the peak # of yeast cells during fermentation ?
Just amazing.
KyleEdited by: zember311
I found fine wines and it is one store I will never want to lose.
In my research, quest to calm idle hand syndrome of constantly having to have my nose deep into information like a mr wizard that drank way to much coffee, I found some interesting science about yeast and it blows my mind thinking about their life cycle.
I been researching the yeasts to find out where it first came from, how they are producing it for commercial use and what is the difference between yeasts. ( which was my biggest reason for the searching ) from bread yeasts to wine yeasts to ale yeasts so on and so forth.
The cool science behind all of this wine making,
on average 1 gram of yeast contains 30 billion yeast cells. so in a 5 gram pack WOW !. Thats just to start.
Lets say for simple math we start with 1 yeast cell. Every 2 hours a yeast cell will produce daughter cell. and this mother cell will produce on average 12 daughters before the cell dies off.
so if we take ONE cell
Hours - number of cells
0 - 1
2 - 2
4 - 4
6 - 8
8 - 16
10 - 32
12 - 64
14 - 128
16 - 256
18 - 512
20 - 1024
22 - 2048
24 - 4096
I notice a binary trait here, so were the first binary developers nothing more then wine brewers ?? haha
so by the time the very first yeast cell dies off after its 12th reproduction, there are now 4096 in a 24 hour time.
It's a shame there is no real hard numbers since there are so many varibles in regards to each packet of yeast we get will have X amount of dead cells that will not regenerate after centerfuging and storage, then other X amount in that pack could already have been suspended on its first or 11th reproduction, and dont forget to factor in our concentrate/most factors that may kill some off.
but if we could take those numbers without varibles and anticipate each cell lived to it's fullest, imagine the peak # of yeast cells during fermentation ?
Just amazing.
KyleEdited by: zember311
