turbo yeast

walter wizard · Feb 18, 2014

Anybody have any experience with this yeast?would work out a lot cheaper I think than the small packs that do 5 gallon!

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 1102160804

oldbloke · Feb 19, 2014

You're thinking of importing a turbo yeast from the states, which'll cost you $30+ (Â£20+) per pound, when you can buy turbo yeasts here at Â£7 a pound? (well, Â£3.50 for 240g, plus postage, but hey)
http://www.brew2bottle.co.uk/still-spir ... tAod_HIAaw

Moley · Feb 19, 2014

To oldbloke: That 240g is probably more nutrient than yeast, but by the time Walter has bought a pound or more of nutrient the maths still won't make much sense.

To Walter: Anyone who is using that sort of quantity of that sort of yeast probably needs to keep quiet about what sort of thing they are up to, and can't discuss it on this sort of forum.

walter wizard · Feb 19, 2014

By all means,delete if this is an inappropriate threa,I thought on a forum category about pushing yeasts this might of been of interest to some people.l have no intention of the dreaded "D" word!

I certainly wouldn't get through the stuff quickly,maybe at all before it goes bad once opened.

That eBay yeast said it can make 500-1000 gallons of wash.even if I have to buy nutrient thats better than Â£7 for 10 gallon.

Cheers

chrig · Feb 19, 2014

I would imagine this is aimed at producing a very large batch of 7-10% 'clean' wash rather than the 20% wash which is made in the UK for filtering and drinking.

Moley · Feb 19, 2014

walter wizard said:
By all means, delete if this is an inappropriate thread

No boundaries crossed yet :thumb:

walter wizard said:
That eBay yeast said it can make 500-1000 gallons of wash. Even if I have to buy nutrient thats better than Â£7 for 10 gallon.

But as chrig has suggested, that would be for one very large batch.

If 1 pound (454g) can ferment 500 gallons that doesn't mean you could use 4.5g to start 5 gallons.

If you look at the Alcotec Vodka Star, that's a 66g sachet which might be half yeast and half nutrient and should make a clean 15% wash, so at that pitching rate your pound of yeast is only going to split 14 ways.