Beer Brewing

Wyeast 1056 American Ale and White Labs WLP001 California Ale are the two most used liquid yeast strains in American homebrewing — both derived from the Chico strain (the same culture used by Sierra Nevada Brewing), both producing the clean, …

Imperial Yeast A38 Juice and Imperial Yeast A24 London Fog are the two most popular hazy IPA-specific strains in Imperial’s catalog, and I’ve fermented wort splits with both to understand what distinguishes them in the final beer.

Liquid yeast versus dry yeast is the most persistent debate in homebrewing supply choices, and after brewing with both formats for years across dozens of styles, I’ve developed a clear framework for when each format wins.

Belle Saison and French Saison are Lallemand’s two saison yeast offerings — both targeting the farmhouse ale tradition, both producing the phenolic-fruity-spicy character that defines the style, but with different intensity and character profiles tha

Diamond Lager and NovaLager are two newer additions to the dry lager yeast market that address specific gaps left by the established W-34/70 and S-23 options.

WB-06 and Munich Classic are the two most widely used dry wheat beer yeasts — WB-06 from Fermentis for German Hefeweizen character; Munich Classic from Lallemand targeting the same style.

BE-256 and T-58 are Fermentis’s two dry Belgian ale yeasts — both produce the spicy, phenolic, fruity character that defines Belgian ale styles, but with meaningfully different profiles that suit different Belgian beer categories.

Hornindal and Eikra are two of the most distinctive kveik strains — both from Western Norway, both capable of high-temperature fermentation, but producing dramatically different flavor profiles that define different applications for the kveik categor

Kveik Voss and Lutra are two of the most practically useful yeast strains to enter homebrewing in decades — both derived from Norwegian farmhouse kveik traditions, both capable of fermenting at temperatures that would produce harsh fusel alcohol and

Verdant IPA and BRY-97 are two modern dry yeast options that target very different points in the ale yeast spectrum — Verdant is Lallemand’s purpose-built NEIPA strain with documented biotransformation capability; BRY-97 is a clean, high-attenuation