Welcome to the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection Web Site!

Using this web site, academic and industrial researchers can select and order yeast strains from the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, get information about our physiological database with over 50 years of unpublished data, explore characteristics of unpublished species, and learn about our contract screening and strain selection services. Your feedback is greatly appreciated, and will help us make this site even better.

What do beer, bread, wine, cactus, olives, and beetles all have in common?

Answer: They are sources of yeast in the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection!

The Phaff Yeast Culture Collection is one of the largest collections of wild yeast in the world. Academic and industrial resarchers utilize this collection for a variety of research and applications, including pigments, enzymes, food ingredients, and hosts for protein expression.