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The process of making a frozen yeast bank might be apparently super-complex and scientific but it’s such a cakewalk if you get your hands on the items mentioned below.

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The process of making a frozen yeast bank might be apparently super-complex and scientific but it’s such a cakewalk if you get your hands on the items mentioned below.

Requirements: You’ll need: a pressure canner two Mason jars a 50 pack of 15 ml sterile test tubes vegetable glycerine of USP grade three lbs of dry malt extract a spray bottle of sanitizer a measuring cup an insulated box or your insulated lunchbox (pick a box that matches with your freezer’s size to fit in) and some gel ice packs that can be reused Now, here are the optional items. A hand towel, a test tube rack that can hold 50 tubes, and a 50 pack of 6 ml oral syringes. Don’t forget you’re not making yeast samples to...

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