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CellarScience® BERLIN Dry Yeast | German Lager | Premium Beer Yeast

CellarScience® BERLIN Dry Yeast | German Lager | Premium Beer Yeast

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  • BERLIN is a popular German yeast strain for producing lagers with soft malt character and balanced esters
  • An ideal choice for Bocks, Oktoberfests, and American amber lagers
  • Designed to be sprinkled directly onto the surface of your wort with no pre-oxygenation before pitching required
  • Ferment between 50-59°F
  • CellarScience offers high-quality yeast that is easy to use, consistent, and available at a tremendous value

A popular yeast strain with a Berlin lineage that is famous for producing amazing lagers with soft malt character and balanced esters. Like all CellarScience yeast, BERLIN is eligible for direct pitch straight into your wort. CellarScience provides 12g of yeast per sachet, which is up to 9% more than any other brand of dry yeast. Every batch of yeast is PCR tested to ensure quality. BERLIN has been selling to pro breweries for awhile but was just recently packaged down to sachets for homebrewers.

Dosage:
Two sachets are enough to treat a 5–6 gallon batch. When calculating for larger batches, use at a rate of 2.5–4 grams per gallon of wort. We recommend rounding up by one full sachet rather than measuring out the yeast exactly.

Direct Pitch or Rehydrate:
BERLIN yeast is designed to be sprinkled directly onto the surface of your wort with no oxygenation required in the initial fermentation. Our aerobic growth process makes this possible by creating dry yeast with high viability and high sterol levels. BERLIN yeast is pre-loaded with essential nutrients to ensure a successful, complete fermentation. While not required, some brewers prefer to rehydrate yeast. To hydrate yeast, first, sanitize the yeast brick and scissors. Use 10 grams of sterilized tap water between 85-95°F (29-35°C) mixed with 0.25 grams of FermStart per gram of yeast. Sprinkle yeast on the water. Allow the slurry to stand undisturbed for 20 minutes, then swirl. Use small amounts of wort to adjust to within 10°F (6°C) of wort temperature before pitching. Ferment between 50-59°F (10-15°C).

Optimum Fermentation Temp: 50-59°F
Flocculation: High
Alcohol Tolerance: 10-11% ABV
Attenuation: 75-85%
Similar Strains: WLP820, WY2206, S-23
Gluten-free
 

CellarScience Yeast:
For years liquid yeast has been sold as the higher quality option but times are changing. Yes, 20 years ago dry yeast was made by bread yeast producers and the quality was not as good as liquid yeast. CellarScience is helping to flip that script with a full lineup of high-quality dry yeasts. Cell count and viability is usually higher than commercial liquid yeast pitches, which vary from pouch to pouch and don't ship well. CellarScience yeast can be pitched directly in most batches of wort, offering significant time savings. Yeast that is quick and easy to use, high quality, and available at a reasonable cost adds up to a tremendous value. Quality yeast that doesn't "break the brink".

CellarScience Nutrients:
For high gravity ferments consider rehydrating yeast with CellarScience FermStart yeast hydration nutrient. For high gravity or low nutrient wort, feed your fermentation with CellarScience FermFed DAP Free complex yeast nutrient mix.

 

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william elliott I on Jan 17, 2023
price
David P on Oct 3, 2022
Needy
william elliott I on Jan 17, 2023
Fantastic yeast
Bill B on Dec 21, 2022
price
David P on Oct 3, 2022
To compare with S-23
andrew on Sep 19, 2022
Quality item
Patrick S on May 25, 2022
Great Price
will f on May 3, 2022
Has worked great for me.
Winfrey J on Apr 12, 2022
wanted something new
Jon F on Apr 11, 2022
I was looking for an inexpensive lager yeast
Mark L on Mar 29, 2022
Not available in za
Gj E on Feb 14, 2022
trying a new item
Vernon G on Feb 10, 2022
trying for the 1st time
Pete T on Dec 30, 2021
I have tried this yeast in several batches and really like it.
Dave on Jul 7, 2021
Like to brew German lagers
Richard J on Jun 11, 2021
Try Cali common at 64f ish
Jason F on Mar 2, 2021
because both saflagers were on backorder
Andrew H on Feb 26, 2021
It looks interesting
Tim on Feb 2, 2021
Fantastic yeast
Bill B on Dec 21, 2022
To compare with S-23
andrew on Sep 19, 2022
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Apples!
I've used this twice,, and I get a very sweet apple flavor. Fermentation is perfect, kept low, and a large pitch. Its not acetylalde at all either. Not the clean flavor I was looking for. Interesting to say the least.
June 18, 2021