Craft Yeast for Craft Brews

High quality, pitch-ready liquid yeast for Probrewers and Homebrewers

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Omega Yeast Diacetyl Knock Out (DKO) artwork

Introducing Diacetyl Knock Out (DKO), a series of familiar house strains engineered to knock out diacetyl formation before it starts. Each DKO strain expresses the ALDC enzyme, allowing you to streamline efficiency and quality. Strains you rely on are now more reliable.

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Fresh
Healthy
Unique
Yeast

Omega Yeast’s unique propagation methods are tuned to strain growth variation.

As a result, our yeast cells grow fresh, healthy and metabolically strong in counts optimized for consistent performance. We expertly generate classic brewers’ strains and innovate new strains and blends that are contributing meaningfully to advances in brewing. We are passionate about what we do.

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Testimonial pollyanna

Omega Yeast has always been very responsive and helpful with any of our questions and is consistently selling clean and reliable yeast. They’re a great partner to have!

Brian Pawola, Pollyanna Brewing Co., Lemont, IL
Testimonial elmhurst

Lance and crew at Omega are great, new place looks fantastic and the yeast is quality. Keep up the good work guys.

Cam Horn, Elmhurst Brewing Co., Chicago, IL
Testimonial perennial

Omega has become a force in yeast supply for the craft brewing industry. Their offering reflects the needs of brewers in these dynamic and creative times. Also, when it comes to customer service, Lance and his team feel more like a partner than merely a yeast supplier.

Phil Wymore, Perennial Artisan Ales, St. Louis, MO
Testimonial honest weight

We really love working with Omega. Every order is delivered on time, the yeast is always fresh and reliable, plus their staff is super knowledgeable and always willing to help.

Sean Nolan, Honest Weight Artisan Beer, Orange, MA
Testimonial singlespeed

Not only is Omega at the forefront of innovation in yeast, but Lance, Mark, and team are extremely dedicated to providing customer service of the utmost quality. There seems to be a strong relationship between trends in craft beer and new products coming from Omega, be it with the use of their Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, or Lactobacillus strains.

Austin Myers, Single Speed Brewing Co., Waterloo, IA

Going
Beyond
Yeast

Propper brings Omega Yeast innovation to a variety of incisive new products designed to make brewers’ lives easier and each brew day successful.

The Propper Brew suite of brewing tools goes beyond yeast to identify and solve for other modern issues brewers face. Our collection of brewers aids is constantly growing. We’re here to make brewing easier. We’re listening.

Propper seltzer packaging

Propper Seltzer®

Make Hard Seltzers Fast and Easy

Propper Seltzer provides a broad spectrum of micro and macronutrients to power your favorite beer, champagne, or distillers yeast through a healthy 100% sugar-based fermentation in as little as 7 days, or 4 days with Lutra® Kveik.

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Propper starter 6pack

Propper Starter®

Stop Prepping. Start Brewing.

Propper Starter concentrated wort makes it easy to give your yeast a healthy start. For increasing biomass and vitality, preparing for high gravity brews and cold-pitched lagers or for using yeast packs nearing expiration: make it easy with Propper Starter.

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Lab services

Lab Services

Ensure Clean Brews

Whether it’s beer specs, flavor profiling, microbiology testing, or strain banking, our lab services provide the tools you need for consistent, clean, and fresh brews. Several members of our lab are TTB certified chemists. We’re here to help ensure that your beers are hitting the targets you’re aiming for.

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