Prestige Turbo Yeast

Turbo Yeast was specifically created for distillation, unlike traditional wine or baker’s yeasts. It is designed to ferment regular white household sugar (sucrose) to produce an exceptionally pure alcohol base that can then be combined with your chosen essences. Furthermore, Turbo Yeast significantly shortens fermentation times while increasing yield by up to 20% under optimal conditions by using temperature and osmotic pressure tolerant strains with complex nutrients tailored for rapid growth – while also significantly decreasing or eliminating Acetaldehyde formation which often caused during long fermentation periods using traditional distillers yeasts.

Maintaining the correct ratios between water and sugar are critical to achieving maximum results. Too much or too little sugar will alter your result, so carefully read and follow any instructions on your bottle. It’s also essential that yeast be pitched at an optimal level according to batch size; too little growth could inhibit or even kill it off completely.

Gert Strand AB’s Black Label and Alcotec 48 Turbo yeast strains are two of the most sought-after Turbo yeast options, both offering fast action with higher alcohol concentration levels than other brands. Both require only 6 kg sugar to reach 14% alcohol concentration while 8 kg are necessary to reach 20% at temperature controlled conditions. They contain less volatiles than baker’s yeast while their fermented wash produces far purer distillate that results in superior final spirit quality while lowering headache-causing acetaldehyde levels.