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
A mild, neutral, smooth lager strain, dry and clean with good malt and very slight apple characteristics.
Clean, crisp and ferments well at a wide range.
Superb for bocks, doppelbocks, Oktoberfest lagers, helles and a favorite for American pilsners, too.
Develops a creamy, malty beer profile with low sulfur production and low esters. It is a great choice for styles like traditional helles, Oktoberfest, bock, and dunkel.
This great lager strain combines good flocculation characteristics with low sulfur and low diacetyl. Clean fermentations produce amazing bock, helles, pilsner, dunkles, and just about any other lager style you throw its way.
Used to ferment lager beer in one week. Ferment at room temperature; 62 to 68°F (17-20°C) under 1.0 bar (14.7 PSI) until final gravity is obtained, generally in one week. Lager the beer at 35°F (2°C), 15 PSI, for 3 to 5 days to condition.
Wildly popular lager strain, produces classic lager profile.
Brewers love this lager yeast strain for its versatility; it will impress you with its ability to produce any lager style you throw at it.
Did I ferment that? Excellent choice for your Czech lager fermentations
Crisp, balanced strain that is lightly malty and finishes with very slight fruit notes.
Dry and neutral taste profile and is gently malty with a lightly perceptible floral aroma.
With a dry and malty taste profile, it is the second of the famous Czech strains inspiring America’s most famous light, brilliantly clear, golden lagers.
Allows for a nice balance between hops and malt. This strain can produce sulfur aromas during fermentation, but it cleans up during lagering.
