LalBrew® House Ale
LalBrew® House Ale is a next-generation performance yeast strain that is extremely fast and incredibly clean, making it the perfect versatile house strain to meet your brewing needs.
Selected by our partner Escarpment Labs (ON, Canada) for its superior fermentation performance, this strain allows brewers to achieve greater efficiency with faster fermentations, shorter maturations, high stress tolerance, excellent repitchability, and quick cleanup of off-flavors like acetaldehyde and diacetyl.
LalBrew® House Ale is suitable for a wide range of beer styles, including IPAs, Blond Ales, and Stouts, due to its neutral fermentation profile.
Quick facts
| Strain | Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
|---|---|
| Beer styles | American IPA |
| Attenuation | 78-86% |
| Temperature range | 16 - 22°C (61 - 72°F) |
| Flocculation | Medium |
| Aroma | Neutral |
| Alcohol tolerance | 14% ABV |
| Pitching rate | 50 - 100g/hL |
Benefits
- Faster fermentations – to save time and space.
- Shorter maturation times – accelerated clean-up of diacetyl and acetaldehyde.
- High stress tolerance – capable of handling difficult fermentations.
- Excellent repitchability – genetically stable and proven consistency in key brewing parameters.
- High FAN uptake – more stable final product.
- Neutral flavor profile – Versatile for a wide range of ales
Testimonials
At Collage we love House Ale. It’s consistent, reliable, and versatile. We’ve used it in everything from IPA and Pale Ales to even cold-fermented pseudo lagers. We have been extremely pleased with how clean the profile is, and how quickly it ferments at both warm and cool temps. Harvesting and repitching is easy. House Ale rules.
This is now our "house" ale strain. Super dependable and quick fermentations (3-4 days!). Drops clear, good attenuation and is very neutral. Great for almost any style where you just need a clean fermentation.
I have used this yeast since it came out at our little brewery. It works well under a variety of temperatures and styles of beer. We use it in our blonde west coast ales, our flagship Pale ale, Stout and recently won Gold with our imperial stout. Fermentations are repeatable and reliable … If we are repitching it has been great for up to 6 generations … It is a key part of the Hornby Island Brewing Company beers.
We were super stoked to have been given the opportunity to trial Lallemand’s LalBrew® House Ale yeast as a replacement to our current house ale strain! Our current house strain is very clean and predictable and produces very neutral esters and flavors. LalBrew® House Ale was promoted as an even cleaner and more efficient yeast and in practice it exceeded our expectations. We used it in our house pale ale Topanga. This batch fermented faster and produced a noticeably cleaner beer that really allowed our hops to shine. While analyzing LalBrew® House Ale we could not find any off flavors or differences visually from our typical house strain batch, only a brighter and more pronounced hop character. I would recommend LalBrew® House Ale to any brewer looking for a brighter, cleaner, workhorse yeast.
FAQ
Brewery trials compared to other popular house strains show that LalBrew® House Ale has shorter fermentation and maturation times with total tank residency reduced by up to 23%. Many brewers also report LalBrew® House Ale allows them to reduce their pitch rate by up to 30-50% compared to their current house strain. Flavor for LalBrew® House Ale is either equivalent, or even preferred, compared to other house strains.
LalBrew® House Ale is a high performance ale yeast of British origin like LalBrew Nottingham™, but with neutral flavor characteristics more similar to an American ale yeast such as LalBrew BRY-97™.
This strain was selected from a brewery that had been repitching it for many years. Its selection did not involve GMO methods, selective breeding, or adaptive lab evolution.
Yes, it is easy to harvest with high yields and viability for re-pitching.
Yes, this strain works very well for bottle and cask conditioning.
LalBrew® House Ale is a great option for cider or hard seltzer, assuming that appropriate nutrients are used for these applications.
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LalBrew BRY-97™ is an American West Coast-style ale yeast that was selected from the Siebel Institute Culture Collection for its ability to produce clean fermentations for high quality ales.