R&D

Here are two real life examples of tricky results from diastatic yeast contamination testing that threw brewers for a loop. One was a pretty expensive lesson. If you read it here, maybe it will never happen to you.

Get a better grip on diastatic yeast to improve your protection from a potentially devastating cross-contamination.

Media that gives a snapshot of actual diastatic activity covers gaps in current testing and adds more insight to diastatic cross-contamination screening. This is something new from Omega Yeast researchers.

Omega Yeast’s researchers tweaked standard LCSM so it alerts to the strains it had previously been missing. Just take a look at how standard LCSM and the optimized version perform differently. Scary!

This improved recipe for LCSM, developed by Omega Yeast’s researchers, covers gaps you may not have been aware existed with standard commercial LCSM.

Omega Yeast’s R&D team gives phenolic strains’ fruity esters a tap take-over, making former Belgian and Hefeweizen strains into something clean and fruity, and a new tool for more modern styles.

Hop compounds are involved in yeast-determined haze, but they also contribute to haze independently. This graph shows evidence that hops have their own haze-determining factor.

Don’t use a hammer if what you really need is a spoon…

Three fermentations, two types of ALDC integration. Like the Thunderdome but for lager.

Omega Yeast’s R&D director, Laura Burns, decodes some of the science behind this new discovery and what it could all mean for brewers.

The Omega Yeast R&D team has made an incredible discovery about the origins of haze.

Laura Burns joined Lindsay Barr of DraughtLab at CBC 2023 to talk thiols, sensory, and split batch fermentations.

No need to consult the magic 8‑ball: the outlook is definitely hazy.

Brewers asked us, ​“how do I make a banana-forward beer with less clove?” So we got to work.

Using olive oil in place of oxygen could result in better shelf stability and lessened effects of oxygen-induced staling…but is it too good to be true?

Learn what a guy with a mustache considered to be a ​“freshening” effect on beer.