House strain service
Bio-Banking
Preserve your house strain, ready when you need it.
We store brewery yeast cultures at -80 degrees C and re-propagate fresh pitches from your banked strain when production needs it.
What it is
Bio-Banking is long-term yeast storage for breweries with a house culture they want to protect. We preserve a clean reference culture in the Bluestone biobank, then propagate from that banked culture when you need a fresh production pitch.
- Service
- House strain banking and re-propagation
- Storage
- -80 degrees C cryostorage
- Best for
- Core house strains, seasonal cultures, backup cultures, and brewery-specific yeast programmes
- Use case
- Return to a clean reference culture when your production yeast has drifted, been lost, or needs rebuilding
Why breweries bank yeast
Protect your house profile
Keep a reference culture for the strain that defines a core beer, seasonal release, or brewery signature.
Reduce production risk
If a culture is lost, contaminated, or underperforming, you have a clean banked source to rebuild from.
Support consistent repitching
Banking gives your yeast management programme a stable reset point when generations start moving away from target performance.
How it works
- Send us the house culture or talk to us about the best collection point from your brewery.
- We assess, clean up where required, and preserve the strain in the Bluestone biobank.
- Your strain is stored under your brewery record at -80 degrees C.
- When needed, we propagate a fresh pitch from the banked culture for production use.
Bank your house strain
Tell us about the culture you want to protect and how often you may need it re-propagated.
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