Our background
our people
NICK IMPELLITTERI
Founder/Chief Yeast Wrangler
Nick has had a long time love of homebrewing, and has always enjoyed experimenting with new ingredients and techniques to evolve and improve his recipes. As a biological scientist, Nick took a particular interest in the organisms that convert the wort he brews into the beer he serves. Specifically, an interest in the vast number of strains that were not commercially available to homebrewers in pure culture.
Putting to work a formal education in microbiology and chemistry, in 2013 Nick began to isolate, characterize and bank a vast collection of unique yeast and bacteria from every source he could find. As he did this, something dawned on him: a high impact contribution to the brewing community would be to make these novel strains and blends available to homebrewers and craft brewers around the world. At that moment the seed was planted, and after many months of plating and colony selection, sore microscope eyes, test fermentations and entrepreneurial research, The Yeast Bay was born!
Nick holds a BS in Biology (Molecular/Microbiology emphasis) with a Chemistry minor from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a MS in Biomedical Engineering (Biomaterials) from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and puts his education to use daily characterizing microbes and designing novel cultures.
WHITE LABS
Manufacturing Partner
While Nick heads up the R&D side of operations characterizing new microbes and designing novel cultures, since 2014 we’ve been partnering with an industry leader to manufacture Yeast Bay cultures for commercial sale. Once Nick creates a new culture and it’s ready for production release, the good people at White Labs will bank, propagate and package the culture for sale.
White Labs has been propagating fermentative organisms for the brewing industry since 1995, and the quality of their products has a lot to do with their success. Over the last 30 years, their unrelenting focus on continual process improvement and innovation has delivered many benefits to the brewing industry:
the first pitchable liquid yeast cultures
the most advanced propagation techniques, ensuring the highest quality and healthiest liquid yeast available on the market
the most innovative packaging, PurePitch® Next Gen, which eliminates oxygen pickup during the packaging process and prevents harmful pressure buildup by venting excess CO2 through a proprietary film
Here at The Yeast Bay, we're incredibly proud to be partnering with White Labs to deliver the highest quality cultures to homebrewers and craft brewers around the world!