Yeast Selection
Choosing the right yeast strain is critical to achieving the perfect balance of flavour, stability, and performance in your beer. At Cara Technology, we offer two approaches to yeast strain selection to meet your specific brewing needs.
Select Candidate Yeasts from Our Collection
Through our partnership with Novonesis, we can provide access to an extensive library of over 850 brewing yeast strains, carefully preserved and characterised to ensure they meet the highest standards. Whether you are brewing ales, lagers, stouts, or specialty beers, our technical team can help you identify the strain with the traits best suited to your requirements.
Select Clones and Variants from Your Existing Yeast Culture
If you already have a yeast culture in use, we can isolate and optimise clones or variants to enhance its performance. This approach allows you to retain familiarity with your existing yeast whilst addressing key challenges or improving specific traits.
What Could a New Brewing Yeast Do for You?
The right brewing yeast can transform your brewing process and your beer. A new strain could help you achieve:
- Consistent colony morphology on indicator media
- Increased or reduced flocculation
- Higher ethanol tolerance
- Enhanced flavour profiles including esters and sulfur compounds
- Improved flavour stability through better SO₂ management
A new brewing yeast can not only resolve issues with your current culture but also introduce a more stable, efficient, and innovative brewing process.
Benefits of Selecting the Right Yeast
By selecting the right yeast strain, you can achieve the following benefits:
Improve Beer Quality and Flavour
- Enhance or reduce sulphur notes to match your desired flavour profile.
- Adjust beer pH (higher or lower) for improved flavour stability.
- Increase or decrease ester levels for precise aroma and taste control.
Optimize Brewing Performance
- Increase alcohol yields from raw materials for better efficiency.
- Gain better attenuation control for a more predictable fermentation process.
- Improve diacetyl management for cleaner-tasting beer.
Streamline Your Brewing Process
- Manage yeast loads more effectively during centrifugation or filtration.
- Achieve consistent colony morphology on indicator media.
- Ensure more reliable flocculation, whether you need increased or reduced levels.
Eliminate Contaminants
- Remove wild yeast strains that compromise beer quality.
- Eradicate bacteria from your yeast culture for improved purity and performance.
