Homebrewer here, they generally don’t die, they just go dormant. It’s quite normal to harvest yeast at the end of fermentation, to the point where many breweries do so to save money. You can even use the harvested yeast to make bread with (which is how bread used to be made)

Best punch line I’ve seen in a while. ʘ‿ʘ

Yeast infection might be related.

Don’t be the yeast that makes Elon Musk’s bread rise.

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