Broadcast Date: April 15, 2021
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Webinar Summary
Diastatic yeasts are a major contamination risk to packaged beer. Brewery quality control programs rely on microbial selective methods and PCR detection of the STA1 gene, however, there is a wide functional range of diastatic activity that remains unresolved by these current methods. This presentation will discuss novel functional assays that provide improved risk assessment of re-fermentation in packaged products with the potential for determining contaminant thresholds for different STA1+ strains and weighing in on the decision to dump beer or issue a product recall.
About the Presenter
Lance Shaner |
Lance Shaner co-founded Omega Yeast Labs in 2013. Prior to founding Omega Yeast, he received a Ph.D. in microbiology and molecular genetics from the University of Texas – Houston and a J.D. from the University of Houston. He has nine years of laboratory experience, including five years of original research on the stress response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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