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What is Kveik yeast?

What is Kveik yeast?

Kveik is the given name for a family of yeasts recently made available to brewers all over the world. Whilst it is a new product for brewers and a new drinking experience for beer lovers, it is in fact a group of yeasts with a long history. Kveik hails from Norway and has been used for generations by small-scale, seasonal farmhouse brewers; think Saison yeasts, but with a snowy alpine backdrop. Kveik yeasts have developed and evolved over generations, but since only a small group of Norweigan farmhouse brewers have been using it, Kveik has flown entirely ‘under the radar’...

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