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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.

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.

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.

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

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 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."

From a Belgian monastery where monks traditionally brew beer, this yeast produces distinctive fruitiness and plum characteristics. An excellent yeast for high-gravity beers, Belgian ales, dubbels and trippels. Lower temperatures (65-67°F/18-19°C) will result in less fruity and more earthy beers.

From a Belgian monastery where monks traditionally brew beer, this yeast produces distinctive fruitiness and plum characteristics. An excellent yeast for high-gravity beers, Belgian ales, dubbels and trippels. Lower temperatures (65-67°F/18-19°C) will result in less fruity and more earthy beers.

Similar to WLP500, but is less fruity and more alcohol tolerant (up to 15% ABV). An excellent yeast for high-gravity beers, Belgian ales, dubbels and trippels.

Blended culture used to produce the classic beer styles of the West Flanders region of Belgium. A proprietary blend of Saccharomyces and Brettanomyces yeasts with Lactobacillus and Pediococcus bacteria, this culture creates a more complex, dark stone fruit characteristic than WLP655.

Inspired by local American brewers crafting semi-traditional Belgian-style ales, this blend creates a complex flavor profile with a moderate level of sourness. It consists of a traditional farmhouse yeast strain and Brettanomyces. Great yeast for farmhouse ales, saisons, and other Belgian-inspired beers.

This yeast produces a very malty, bock-like beer. It does not finish as dry as WLP830. It’s much slower in the first generation than WLP830, so we encourage using a larger starter during the first generation or scheduling a longer lagering time.