Lagering

[glynb]

Hi, Am I right in assuming that crashing a lager down to 2c will make the yeast go dormant or possibly die?

 

[TartanSpecial]

I'm no expert, but things I've read suggest it will suffer some sort of cold stress at that temperature but should still be viable and is in the current temp range for commercial practice. Attached Phd thesis talks about it a bit, though is a bit long and technical...read the abstract then look around page 15 onward...quite interesting. Phd chap is suggesting the lager yeast might actually prefer being stored at 10 deg c.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28783/1/594815.pdf