Liquid Yeast

Joystick has purported origins from a famous Oregon brewery that has made great use of it...and for good reason! This yeast is highly flocculant, ferments quickly, attenuates well, is very alcohol-tolerant, produces little to no diacetyl, and produces only a mild fruitiness. It can make beers that have a crisp, dry finish with a slight mineral character. It is a great strain to use in the production of just about any style of ale, including IPAs, pale ales, blond ales, ambers, browns, stouts, porters, Scottish and Irish ales...the list goes on! Use the Joystick strain, where any recipe calls for pacman yeast!

The most popular lager strain in the world, and for good reason! Global is a great strain all-around, and can be used on almost any lager style. It is clean, with a very low ester profile. Beers fermented with Global shine and stand out! It is good on anything from light German pilsners to rich bock and doppelbock styles. It has lower flocculation chracteristics than other lager strains, which means an extended conditioning phase will help it to clear. However, it also means that yeast will stay in solution slightly longer and help to fully attenuate the beer. Try this one on almost any lager your mind can come up with!

Harvest is a great strain for all those really big, malty lagers! Perfect for festbiers such as Bocks, Doppelbocks and Oktoberfests, it also has a lot of characteristics that make it good for lagers of all kinds! It produces low levels of diacetyl and sulfur, producing clean beers every time! Slightly lower attenuation means that this yeast can leave some residual sugars and produces beers with great malt character! Give this a try on your big, malty lagers!

Monastic is a classic abbey strain of Belgian yeast, and as such works well in the production of big abbey ales, such as quads and dark Belgian ales. It will produce the big esters and a high amount of spicy phenolics which are characteristic of traditional Belgian ales and the monk-produced Abbey ales. Great for trappist-style beers as well! As this strain is a lower flocculating strain, expect it to stay in solution for awhile, completing fermentation and giving a distinct dryness to the finished beers.

This yeast is a workhorse! A wide variety of Belgian beer styles are no problem for this yeast strain! Saisons, pales, blondes, golden strongs, dark strongs, singles, dubbles, trippels, quads, Belgian stouts...all of these can be produced with Workhorse. It is clean for a Belgian strain and has a high alcohol tolerance that makes it great for big Belgian beers. Very flocculant as far as Belgian ale strains go, Workhorse is a winner!

This yeast strain from Imperial Organic Yeast is called Gateway, and for good reason! Not only may it serve as your Gateway to brewing a wide array of lager beers, but is also so named because of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, where the assumed origin brewery of this yeast is located (hint hint!). A yeast with strong fermentation characteristics, it is a moderately-flocculating yeast that creates crisp, clean beers every time! While the first beer style that comes to mind with this strain is Pilsner, its cleanliness makes it a great choice for lagers of all kinds.