WTF Is Kveik Yeast? A Conversation With Oslo Brewing Company

“Kveik yeast” has been showing up on more and more labels of more and more beers from your favorite breweries. It’s a hot commodity in great beer, but why? What makes it special--and how does it make beer special? And where did it even come from? There is truly no one better to walk us through all things kveik yeast than Dimitri Yogaratnam, Founding Partner and CEO of Oslo Brewing Company. This Norway-based brewery is lighting the world up with buzz for its fantastic beers, and one such example is its Kveik IPA. Because of Oslo’s must-have example of a kveik beer, and because kveik itself is also Norwegian just like this brewery, Dimitri was nice enough to walk us through the ins, outs, and surprises of kveik yeast--like the fact that despite its more recent rise in craft beer, it’s actually been around for centuries! This conversation will answe ...