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How Berkeley Yeast’s Superbloom Builds Highly Drinkable Hoppy Beer

How Berkeley Yeast’s Superbloom Builds Highly Drinkable Hoppy Beer

Over the last decade, boom-and-bust cycles have defined the IPA category. Sour IPAs, overly bitter palate wreckers, and bone-dry brut IPAs have mostly disappeared, a dry-hopped gold rush that didn...

Turning Off Unwanted Flavors: How Berkeley Yeast’s Fresh Strains Create Low Diacetyl IPAs and Lagers

Turning Off Unwanted Flavors: How Berkeley Yeast’s Fresh Strains Create Low Diacetyl IPAs and Lagers

By Joshua M. Bernstein Like most brewers, Danny Priddy has a pretty discerning palate. The director of brewing operations at Riip Beer Company in Huntington Beach, California, is particularly se...

Souring Without the Bacterial Struggle: How Berkeley Yeast’s Galactic Strain Is Producing Crowd-Pleasing Sour Ales

Souring Without the Bacterial Struggle: How Berkeley Yeast’s Galactic Strain Is Producing Crowd-Pleasing Sour Ales

Berkeley Yeast tailored Galactic’s genetics to finish around 3.5 pH, meaning that instead of  melting tooth enamel, it can bring fruit to life. (Some fruits like mangoes and strawberries are acidic...

How Tropics Strains Are Helping Brewers Create More Aromatic IPAs

How Tropics Strains Are Helping Brewers Create More Aromatic IPAs

J.C. Hill, the cofounder of Alvarado Street Brewery in Monterey, California, wanted to make a hazy IPA that’s welcoming in both flavor and price point; increasing the hopping rate increases a beer’...