California Ale Yeast

About

This is our best-selling yeast, famous for its clean flavors and hardy fermentations. Known for its use in hoppy beers, it accentuates hop flavors and aromas and attenuates well, even for high gravity beers.

Flavor Profile

Clean, neutral with excellent hop accentuation

Best For

Pale Ale, IPA, Ales

Provenance

"Originally isolated from the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California in the 1980s. This strain became the foundation of American craft brewing and is genetically similar to Wyeast 1056 and Fermentis US-05."

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