Omega Yeast grows high quality, ready-to-pitch liquid yeast for brewers. Located in Chicago and St. Louis, the crew consists of a handful of microbiologists, homebrewers, professional brew staff and craft beer fans who have made it their express purpose to make brewing easier and better for everyone. They hold firm to the belief that the best yeast is the freshest yeast, and are constantly in pursuit of innovation, offering homebrewers unique varieties that can’t be found anywhere else. Whether it’s their renowned Lacto blend, proprietary hybrids, Lithuanian or Norwegian strains, Omega Yeast has a passion for seeking out and creating tools that are contributing meaningfully to advances in brewing. They have built their reputation using unique propagation methods to produce metabolically strong yeast cells, with consistent fermentation and optimized cell counts. Omega is craft yeast for craft brews! Each homebrew pitch comes with 200 billion cells, which is 2x the cell count of standard liquid pitch.