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Fresh Andechs: Ultra-Clean and Easy to Harvest

Fresh Andechs: Ultra-Clean and Easy to Harvest

There’s a reason why Fresh Andechs is our best-selling lager strain and a cellar staple in production breweries large and small. Fresh Andechs is a workhorse that outperforms every lager strain. It's bioengineered to make an ultra-crisp, low-sulfur, low-diacetyl beer and it flocculates well, so it’s easy to harvest and repitch. Fresh Andechs is a dream strain with wide utility, able to create incredibly clean lagers and IPAs with a crisper and lighter profile.

A Fresh (Chico) Approach to Fresh-Hop Beers

A Fresh (Chico) Approach to Fresh-Hop Beers

As harvest falls upon America’s hop fields throughout late August and September, we start daydreaming of all the fresh-hop beers that we’ll soon sip. But being scientists, we couldn’t help but wonder: How could fresh-hop beers be even better? Sometimes the aromatics are a little subdued, a feature that could be fixed with one of our engineered yeast strains.