Homebrew Yeast Strains Chart
With the plethora of yeast strains available from different companies, it can be hard to keep all of the products straight. Choosing the proper yeast strain is essential to the quality of your finished beer. Here's an overview of the most common strains currently available to homebrewers from North America's leading suppliers, who provided all of the information for this chart. Just select a beer style from the menu below to view a chart with appropriate yeast strains to consider for your recipe.
Key: Type=Type of yeast, S=Slant, D=Dry, L=Liquid, Floc=Flocculation, Atten=Attenuation, Temp=Ideal Fermentation Temperature
Authentic Trappist style yeast. Available Jul-Aug.
Clean, almost lager-like with biscuity ale aroma. Available Nov-Dec.
A classic Bière de Garde strain, it produces slight esters and mild phenols, while preserving the sweet aromatics from the malt bill. This strain fully attenuates, leaving the beer with a crisp, dry finish.
Versatile and unique Belgian ale yeast, the go-to for Belgian pale ales or IPAs.
It is brewery friendly, crops easily and has a well-rounded flavor profile with balanced fruitiness and phenolics.
Brewers who use this strain suffer through tricky fermentation kinetics for its rich flavor profile and aroma complexity. If you are tempted by this low-flocculating stop-and-starter, try Belgian Golden Strong (OYL-056) instead.
A mild Belgian-charactered ale yeast with light toasty or biscuit-like aromatic maltiness.
With balanced fruit and phenolics, this Trappist ale yeast’s clean and dry profile carries a signature sharp tasting, slightly acidic finish.
Phenolic and spicy flavours dominate the profile.
Perfect for high-gravity Belgian ales with a dry finish, its relatively mellow phenolic character is balanced by light banana and pear esters.
Seasonal Availability. Produces complex Belgian flavors and aromas.
Blend of Trappist yeast and Belgian ale yeast
Universal top-fermenting beer yeast.
Seasonal Availability. Banana and fruit esters complemented with mild phenolics and hints of acidity.
Seasonal Availability. Will produce moderate fruity esters and spicy phenols.
Gnome is the yeast for brewing Belgian inspired beers in a hurry. This is one of the more flocculent Belgian strains, great for Belgian ales that need to be crystal clear without filtration.
This strain’s clove phenolics, esters and tart and dry ending were historically enhanced by orange peel and coriander.
Abbaye is an ale yeast of Belgian origin selected for its ability to produce great Belgian style beers including high gravity beers such as Dubbel, Trippel and Quads.
A blend of two saison strains and a low phenolic Belgian strain developed for the White Labs brewed saisons. This strain has proved very versatile, creating spicy, dry and clean beers.
Seasonal Availability. Produces a spicy character and mild esters.
Slight peppery characteristics.
Distinctive fruitiness and plum characteristics.
Develops estery and somewhat peppery spiceyness.
Seasonal Availability. A unique blend of Belgian Saccharomyces and Brettanomyces.
The perfect strain for your classic abbey ales. Triple Double produces moderate esters with low to no phenolic characteristics.
Produces an excellent balance of spicy phenolic character and esters. Along with the necessary aromatics, this strain produces a significant amount of acidity which is perfect for wits and other light colored Belgian ales.
