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Mods, after writing this up in the thread in response to a question, I figured it had some decent information for a FAQ. If you give me a couple days I can dig through the rest of my links to make sure I've got everything, and if other people have them they can submit them and we can put the final version in the FAQ section.First Steps in Yeast Culture is a good book for review and getting acquainted with it. I freakin' hate the commy bastard for the way he organized the book. No index, no persistent page numbers. Pages are like 2.13 for chapter 2, page 13 in chapter 2. Even in the table of contents this punk writes it like a paragraph and does Title ChapterNumber, like How to Yeast Something 13, How not to Yeast Something 14. He just kills you with the organization, and no index it makes it terrible for any kind of reference, but it's good to read through once. Or twice.In Brewery Operations, Vol 7, there is a section called Practical Yeast Management by Fix that is worth a read. Actually several sections in there worth a read including the section on lab techniques for small labs where I first learned about WST. For online sources:M.B. Raines has a great guide, Yeast Propagation and Maintenance: Principles and Practices on the Maltose Falcons.Brewing Techniques has Yeast Culturing Practices for Small-Scale Brewers.Yeast Culturing on BrewikiYeast Culture FAQ at Bodensatz BrewingYeast Culturing at RealbeerYeast Farming on AHBCulturing Yeast and Using Slants on AHBYeast FAQ on Brewery.orgSome thoughts on Rehydrating Dry Yeast from Listermann and ConeI don't believe freezing is really worthwhile in a homebrewery as I think slants can last just as long as people say they go between reculturing frozen samples. However...Yeast Harvesting & Freezing at Schwedhelm.netFreezing Yeast is another site.Finally, Yeasts from Bottle Conditioned BeersEdit: I might have some more links actually. I just clean installed my system starting on Thursday, so this is just what I had in Opera, but I have a ton over in IE that I still need to sort through.