Brewer Resources

Resources to help you get the most out of our yeast. Explore the videos, recipes, and other resources below.

Recipe: Green Cheek + Alvarado Street Smiles for Miles Hazy DIPA

Recipe: Green Cheek + Alvarado Street Smiles for Miles Hazy DIPA

Green Cheek Beer Co., Alvarado Street Brewery and Berkeley Yeast recently teamed up to brew Smiles for Miles, a DDH Hazy DIPA that was fermented with Berkeley’s ultra clean, thiol-producing TROPICS...

Tim Sciascia's West Coast Pilsner Recipe

Tim Sciascia's West Coast Pilsner Recipe

This recipe creates a wonderfully light and aromatic, highly drinkable hop focused lager with our ultra-low diacetyl FRESH™ Andechs strain. With drinkers’ ever-increasing preference for lower ABV b...

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

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 sensitive to diacetyl, an or...

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’...

Best Practices: FRESH™ London

Best Practices: FRESH™ London

Everything you need to get the most out of our ultra-low diacetyl FRESH™ London yeast. 

Best Practices: FRESH™ Chico

Best Practices: FRESH™ Chico

Everything you need to get the most out of our ultra-low diacetyl FRESH™ Chico yeast.