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Our best-selling yeast is famous for its clean flavors, balance, and ability to be used in almost any style of ale. It is extremely versatile and accentuates hop flavors well. A great all-purpose strain and a hardy fermenter.

A classic ESB strain from one of England's largest independent breweries. This yeast is best suited for English style ales including milds, bitters, porters, and English style stouts. This yeast will leave a beer very clear, and will leave some residual sweetness.

This is the yeast from one of the oldest stout producing breweries in the world. It produces a slight hint of diacetyl, balanced by a light fruitiness and slight dry crispness. Great for Irish ales, stouts, porters, browns, reds and a very interesting pale ale.

This yeast is a little more attenuative than WLP002. Like most English strains, this yeast produces malty beers. Excellent for all English style ales including bitter, pale ale, porter, and brown ale.

Ferments dry and flocculates very well; produces a distinct ester profile. This yeast yields a full mouthfeel for creating English-style ales, including bitters, pale ales, porters, stouts and browns.

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Clean, highly flocculent, and highly attenuative yeast. This yeast is similar to WLP002 in flavor profile, but is 10% more attenuative. This eliminates the residual sweetness, and makes the yeast well suited for high gravity ales. It is also reaches terminal gravity quickly. 80% attenuation will be reached even with 10% ABV beers.

This strain can be used to reproduce many American versions of classic beer styles but has been gaining popularity for its use in East Coast IPAs. This yeast can also be used in golden, blondes, honeys, pales and German altbier-style ales.

Dry, malty ale yeast. Provides a complex, oakey ester character to your beer. Hop bitterness comes through well. This yeast is well suited for classic British pale ales, bitters, and stouts. Does not flocculate as much as WLP002 and WLP005.

From the famous brewing town of Burton upon Trent, England, this yeast is packed with character. It provides delicious subtle fruity flavors like apple, clover honey and pear. Great for all English styles, IPA's, bitters, and pales. Excellent in porters and stouts.

Scotland is famous for its malty, strong ales. This yeast can reproduce complex, flavorful Scottish style ales. This yeast can be an everyday strain, similar to WLP001. Hop character is not muted with this strain, as it is with WLP002.

From a small brewpub in Cologne, Germany, this yeast works great in Kölsch and altbier-style beers. Good for light styles like blondes and honeys. Accentuates hop flavors, similar to WLP001.

Traditional altbier-style yeast from Düsseldorf, Germany. Produces clean, slightly sweet alt beers. Does not accentuate hop flavor as WLP029 does.

From Northern California, this strain is fruiter than WLP001 and slightly more flocculent. Attenuation is lower, resulting in fuller-bodied beers than WLP001.

This blend celebrates the strengths of WLP001-clean, neutral fermentation and versatile usage-and adds two other strains that belong to the same 'clean/neutral' flavor category.

This is a blend of ale and lager yeast strains. The strains work together to create a clean, crisp, light American lager-style ale. A pleasing estery aroma may be perceived from the ale yeast contribution. Hop flavors and bitterness are slightly subdued. A slight amount of sulfur is produced from the lager yeast during fermentation.

A blend of British ale yeast strains designed to add complexity and attenuation to your ale. Moderate fruitiness and mineral-like character, with little to no sulfur. Drier than WLP002 and WLP005, but with similar flocculation properties. This yeast is suitable for English pale ales, bitters, porters, stouts and IPAs.

A super clean, super-fast fermenting strain. A low ester-producing strain that results in a balanced, neutral flavor and aroma profile. Alcohol-tolerant and very versatile for a wide variety of styles. Similar to California Ale Yeast WLP001 but it generally ferments faster.

This yeast is great in Northeastern style IPAs because it throws a little personality and body into your beer. Esters are higher than WLP001 and this strain has been known to result in more diacetyl increasing the temperature at the end of fermentation is suggested.

From England, this yeast can ferment up to 25% alcohol when used correctly. It produces ester characters that increase with increasing gravity. Malt character dominates at lower gravities. To achieve >25% ABV, sugar needs to be fed over the course of the fermentation.

This famous German yeast strain is used in the production of traditional, authentic wheat beers. It produces banana and clove notes and leaves the desired cloudy look of traditional German wheat beers.

Former Yeast Lab W51 yeast strain, acquired from Dan McConnell. The description originally used by Yeast Lab still fits: "This strain produces a classic German-style wheat beer, with moderately high, spicy, phenolic overtones reminiscent of cloves."

High phenolic clove aroma and flavor, with minimal banana. Also produces refreshing citrus and apricot notes for a crisp, drinkable hefeweizen. Less flocculant than WLP300, and sulfur production is higher.