ST. LOUIS – AB Mauri North America has accomplished the acquisition of Omega Yeast Labs LLC, efficient Aug. 14, 2024. Omega Yeast – a complementary enterprise to AB Mauri’s enterprise division, AB Biotek – is a pacesetter within the craft brewing liquid yeast market in the USA, with areas within the Midwest and an worker rely of practically 50. Monetary phrases weren’t disclosed.
Omega Yeast’s analysis, growth and manufacturing headquarters are located inside a state-of-the-art, 14,000-square-foot facility in Chicago. The corporate is extensively touted within the home craft brewing section for its sturdy innovation capabilities and novel, transformational yeast strains.
“The acquisition of Omega Yeast will additional strengthen and speed up our North American specialty yeast enterprise for craft beer,” mentioned Brent Fenton, president, AB Mauri North America. “This represents a novel alternative to mix the worldwide expertise energy of AB Biotek along with a number one, high-quality liquid yeast producer right here within the U.S.”
Omega Yeast Labs has an in depth portfolio of yeast strains throughout all kinds of craft brewing types, from conventional lagers and ales to West Coast IPAs, arduous seltzers, and past.
“Omega Yeast has equipped skilled and residential craft brewers throughout the nation with main liquid yeast options for greater than the previous decade since Lance Shaner and I based the enterprise in 2013,” mentioned Mark Schwarz, co-founder, Omega Yeast. “We sit up for even better days forward beneath the AB Mauri and AB Biotek umbrella as we count on to develop our footprint in each liquid and dry options and construct an much more sturdy portfolio of options to satisfy the wants of craft brewers at present and tomorrow.”
The Omega Yeast model joins AB Mauri’s iconic Fleischmann’s Yeast for baking and AB Biotek’s Pinnacle portfolio for beer, wine and distilled spirits as a part of a boosted product lineup. The acquisition – together with AB Mauri’s latest investments in a specialty dry yeast plant in Hull, U.Ok., and a beverage purposes middle in Etten-Leur, The Netherlands – underscores a dedication to increasing and enhancing AB Biotek’s choices within the beer and wider alcohol beverage market globally.
AB Mauri North America is a baking expertise firm captivated with baking and pushed to assist prospects obtain superior high quality. Industrial and artisan bakers look to us for iconic Fleischmann’s Yeast, premium bakery ingredient options, distinctive course of optimization and customised technical service & assist.
About AB Biotek
AB Biotek contributes to the success of our prospects by the supply of superior technical service and fermentation experience mixed with high quality yeast and expertise options. Now we have business scale yeast manufacturing capabilities – in addition to analysis and growth laboratories offering yeast and fermentation diagnostics – in areas all world wide. AB Biotek develops specialty yeast options for a spread of industries together with shopper alcohol drinks – akin to beer, wine, distilled spirits, seltzer and cider – bioethanol, and animal vitamin.
About Omega Yeast Labs LLC
We imagine the perfect yeast is the freshest yeast. That’s why our Probrew pitches are all the time customized made-to-order, and delivered the date you want them. And Homebrewers can discover a collection of our vigorously wholesome yeast at a neighborhood homebrew store close to you. We imagine experimentation, innovation and questioning the established order, which is why we produce over 75 strains, together with frequent workhorse varieties and a number of other distinctive ones you can’t discover anyplace else. Our proprietary propagation methodology generates metabolically robust yeast cells, with constant fermentation and optimized cell counts. As a lot as we love our yeast, we’re simply as happy with our folks and repair. We promise to make it simple so that you can deal with brewing as a result of we’re all the time right here for you. We’re right here to assist.
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