Beer and Cider Core Panel

The core panel for beers and ciders consists of both bacteria and yeast screening. The following are included:

  • General Saccharomyces strains
  • Non- Saccharomyces strains (wild yeast) 
  • General Lactobacillus and Pediococcus strains
  • STA + genes for highly diastatic yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus)

Additional Beer and Cider individual assays include the following

Bacteria:

  • HorABC genes (pH tolerant Lactobacillus and Pediococcus)
  • Lactobacillus acetotolerans
  • Lactobacillus fructivorans
  • Lactobacillus rhamnosus
  • Lactobacillus delbruekii
  • Lactobacillus brevis
  • Pediococcus damnosus
  • Prokaryotic microorganisms (general bacteria)
  • Staphylococcus bacteria

Yeast:

  • Brettanomyces bruxellensis
  • Brettanomyces anomala (claussenii)
  • Brettanomyces naardenensis
  • Lachancea thermotolerans
  • Wickerhamomyces anomalus (Pichia anomala)
  • Saccharomycodes ludwigii
  • Zygosaccharomyces rouxii
  • Zygosaccharomyces kombuchaensis