Yeast
Blitz Lager — WHC Lab
WHC Lab
Spec sheet The maker publishes these figures for this exact product.
- Lab
- WHC Lab
- Product code
- Blitz Lager
- Form
- dry
- Type
- hybrid
- Attenuation
- 73–77 %
- Temperature
- 16–20 °C
- Flocculation
- medium
- Alcohol tolerance
- 11 %
- STA1
- not published — treat as unknown
- Dosage
- 50–100 g/hL
Description
Not a true lager yeast but a Saccharomyces cerevisiae selected to taste like one at ale temperatures — 16–20 °C, no glycol, no month in the tank. Malty and balanced, and it flocculates well enough to clear fast, which is the whole argument for it.