used was YPD-agar. It contains 1% yeast extract (Condalab, Madrid,
Spain), 2% peptone (Condalab, Madrid, Spain), 2% pure anhydrous glucose
(PanReac, Barcelona, Spain), and 1.7% agar (Condalab, Madrid, Spain).
Incubation of the yeast seeded Petri dishes was carried out at 26
°C in an oven (J.P Selecta, Barcelona, Spain). Colony forming
units (CFU/mL) were counted by preparing serial dilutions in sterile
distilled water and plating 10–5 and 10–7 dilutions on YPD-agar plates. In all cases the cell count was around
8-log CFU/mL.
For biomass growth of the different yeasts, a
YPD liquid culture was prepared. It also contains 1% yeast extract
(Condalab, Madrid, Spain), 2% peptone (Condalab, Madrid, Spain), and
2% pure anhydrous glucose (PanReac, Barcelona, Spain). Two passages
were performed prior to inoculation of the beer wort, the first in
glass tubes with a volume of 5–10 mL of medium and the second
in Erlenmeyer flask with 40% YPD medium. The amount of yeast inoculated
at the different stages of the process corresponded to 2% of the final
volume. The glass tubes with YPD medium were incubated at 26 °C
for 24 h in a static incubator (J.P. Selecta, Barcelona, Spain), while
the cultures in Erlenmeyer flasks, were incubated at 26 °C in
an incubator with orbital shaking at 115 rpm (New Brunswick Innova
40/40R, Eppendorf, Barcelona, Spain) for 48 h.