Berkeley Yeast

Bioengineers yeast strains for the fermented beverage industry, primarily brewing and wine. Commercial product lines include Tropics (tropical hop flavor terpenes produced in yeast, eliminating need for expensive hop varieties), Galactic (lactic acid production in ale yeast for kettle-sour-free sour beers), Superbloom (linalool/geraniol production for hop-forward flavor), and Summerstone (peach flavor). Also developing strains for reduced ethanol production (non-alcoholic beer) and smoke taint removal in wine. Offers custom strain development partnerships, gene discovery, enzyme engineering, pathway optimization, with hundreds of prototypes screened in micro-fermentations before pilot brewery testing. Grant funding from NSF, NIH, and USDA.