I just wanted to let those who know me know that I have been away for a good reason. I suffered a silent heart attack in August of 2016 and had to undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery in September of 2016. Three grafts where performed on my heart (a.k.a. a triple bypass). I have adopted a much healthier lifestyle, which includes beer, but more red wine. I have also lost 40lbs. I have missed contributing to the AHA forum, and I miss my blog. Denny contacted me not long ago about his and Drew’s forthcoming book, and it made me think about all of the people who make this forum great.
Welcome back. We missed you.
Stay healthy, please.
Welcome back! Glad you are doing well.
- formerly alestateyall.
Holy cow. Very glad to hear you are doing well and so glad to have you back. Your input is sorely missed.
Glad to hear from you! You are remembered here often, your contributions have been missed. Keep up the healthy lifestyle, some beer and red wine can be part of that as you know.
Edit -as all of the yeast genome stuff rolls out, I always think about what your take would be.
Hey, howdy!!! Glad you’re still around and back in the saddle
Glad to hear you are ok. Welcome back!
Damn. Glad that you are ok, and it’s nice to see you here again.
Welcome back. Prayers go out to you and your family.
Welcome back! Glad to hear you are doing better! Keep it up!
Good to have you back! I will toast to your health with my next beer.
Welcome back! We missed your input on many topics.
Paul
Glad to hear from you, Mark. Your contributions to yeast understanding is nothing short of legendary here on the AHA forum. Shaken, Not Stirred is still SOP for many of us…here’s to your continued good health!
Cheers.
Yes! This! Please!
Welcome back, Mark!!
Welcome back. It’s been said on more than one occasion that your input is missed. I third the motion that your input on the genome project is vital.
I’m glad you have recovered and are having success in keeping care of yourself. Welcome back!
I would like to add my welcome back to the others. Your thoughts and insight have been missed.
I saw the yeast genome project post, and there are a lot of questions in my mind. I previously posted a link to the Dunn and Sherlock publication in which the Ballantine culture BRY-96 (a.k.a. Chico) was shown to be a diploid yeast strain having many of the genetic markers of the saccharomyces cerevisiae parent of saccharomyces pastorianus (https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2008/09/11/gr.076075.108.full.pdf). Diploid brewing strains are unique because most brewing strains are polyploids with three (triploid) or four (tetraploid) sets of chromosomes. The beauty of a diploid strain is that it can undergo sexual reproduction (meiosis) in addition to asexual reproduction (mitosis). Brewing cultures are produced via mitosis. New yeast strains are produced via meiosis.
There was a session in Portland you will love when it gets posted on the AHA site. A Prof at U of WA tracked genetic changes through sreial repitches at Post Doc Brewing (Dr. Tom Schmidlen used to be on here before he went pro). I think you will enjoy it, as it was one of the Chico strains IIRC.
Wow, I’m glad to hear you are recovering well. Keep in good health and hope to see you posting again regularly.
I’m off to make an SNS starter for today’s kölsch.