Turbo Yeast
What is turbo yeast?
Yeast is a single cell organism which multiplies vigorously in the presence of oxygen and then after all of the oxygen is used up, yeast will convert sugar into alcohol. And fermentation? It is of course simply the process by which yeast converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Most yeast will give up multiplying after a certain level of alcohol is present—usually around 14%. Turbo yeast is a special strain of yeast that can tolerate high levels of alcohol sometimes up to 24%. A turbo yeast packet also contains a blend of nutrients that helps the yeast to reach this higher alcohol level.
Types of turbo yeast
There are several brands and types of turbo yeast. We carry the Still Spirits brand. Still Spirits turbos are the market leader and give outstanding results. We'll give you a description of the most popular turbos we sell. If you want to learn about the complete line of yeasts available from Still Spirits you can download their brochure.
Still Spirits Classic Turbo Yeast
Classic is the best selling Turbo Yeast world-wide, performing excellently under most conditions. Its fast, capable of fermenting 6kg of sugar in 36 hours. It reaches 18% ABV where 8kg of sugar is used and has excellent temperature tolerance. Classic has been further improved with the inclusion of new mineral absorbents, further improving distillate quality. We recommend you use Turbo Carbon as it will significantly improve the performance of Classic Turbo.
Still Spirits Triple Distilled Turbo Yeast
Triple Distilled Turbo should be used where ultimate alcohol quality is of primary importance. Only use where cool air temperature (between 18% C) can be maintained. This is a revolutionary breakthrough in Turbo Yeast development making it possible to produce "triple distilled" quality alcohol in the home. It is essential to use Turbo Carbon with Triple Distilled Turbo Yeast.
Still Spirits Turbo Express
Express is the fastest Turbo on the planet, fermenting out 6kg of sugar in less than 24 hours and producing very good distillate quality. It is important that water start temperature is correct and only 6kg of sugar is used to get maximum speed. We recommend you use Turbo Carbon as it will significantly improve the performance of Express Turbo.
Distillers yeast
Distillers yeast are designed for making spirit in the more traditional way such as whiskeys from malt and grains.
Whiskey distilers yeast
Whiskey Distillery Yeast is a pure culture Whiskey Strain of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae used widely in commercial whiskey, with robust and authentic aromatics even in high-alcohol fermentations. Includes the advantage of complete nutrition and amyloglucosidase. This enables both complete dextrin conversion of malt or grain for maximum yield as well as rapid fermentation to 15% ABV which is very high for standard whisky low beers.
Vodka distillers yeast
Vodka Distillery Yeast is a high yield Vodka Strain with extraordinarily low metabolite production ideal for use with sugar, grain or potato feedstock in Vodka or other white spirit production. Provides complete nutrition for easy fermentation of low-nutrition ashes together with myloglucosidase enzyme or dextrins conversion.
Rum distillers yeast
Rum Distillery Yeast is an Osmophilic Saccharomyces Cerevisiae strain especially suited to 50:50 blend of molasses and sucrose fermentations to 15%ABV. Contains complete nutrition for rapid fermentation. Producing full, rich fruity aromatics, it also includes amyloglucosidase enzyme for breaking longer-chain sugars for optimum yield.