Yeast
FRESH Chico — Berkeley Yeast
Berkeley Yeast
Spec sheet The maker publishes these figures for this exact product.
- Lab
- Berkeley Yeast
- Product code
- FRESH Chico
- Form
- liquid
- Type
- ale
- Attenuation
- 80–90 %
- Temperature
- 19–21 °C
- Flocculation
- medium
- Alcohol tolerance
- not published as a number
- STA1
- not published — treat as unknown
Description
A Chico derivative engineered to make the ALDC enzyme inside the cell, which converts the diacetyl precursor before it ever becomes butter. Ferments like the American ale workhorse it came from, but shortens or removes the diacetyl rest, so tanks turn over faster.