Yeast Pitch Rate Calculator

Professional brewing tool — hemocytometer cell counting & slurry volume

Pitch Rate Guidelines

Ales <16°P

Pitch 1.0 million cells/mL/°P

Lagers <16°P

Pitch 1.5 million cells/mL/°P

Ales or Lagers >16°P

Add an additional 0.5 million cells/mL per degree Plato

Brewing with Fermentable Sugar

Add an additional 0.5 million cells/mL per degree Plato

Yeast Strain

Source Tank

New Tank

Generation

Dilution Factor

Dead Cells

Total Cells

Vol. Wort (BBL)

Gravity (°P)

Pitch Rate (M cells/mL/°P)

Enter Total Cells above to see results

Viability = (Total − Dead) / Total · Cells/mL = Total × 5 × Dilution × 10,000

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