Chicago Cane Cooperative Is the City’s First Worker-Owned Distillery | Eater Chicago
"An Old Irving Park laboratory that supplies yeast strains used in fermentation, forming part of the production chain credited with shaping the cooperative’s rum flavors." - Pearse Anderson
SF Beer Week Brings Kviek, A Norwegian Super Yeast, to a Big New Audience | Eater SF
"I note that Chicago’s Omega yeast labs, which sold its yeast to Almanac, has refined and distributed multiple kveik strains — HotHead Ale, Voss Kveik, and Hornindal Kveik — and that those three collectively rank as Omega’s third-best sellers out of some 80 yeast strains; co-owner Lance Shaner cautions that calling it a "revolution" may be too strong, but says kveik is definitely going to have its place." - Caleb Pershan