Prestige Turbo Yeast

This Turbo yeast ferments quickly to 14% within days and is temperature tolerant enough for use with both simple Amazing Stills and more advanced fractional stills. Ideal for people new to distilling looking to maximize the efficiency of their equipment and equipment purchases.

Turbo Pure 48 can efficiently ferment 6-8 kg of sugar in a 25L wash in as little as two days, as its purified fermentation system contains the lowest volatile production yeast available, special anti-volatile agents and nutrients and minerals to promote rapid fermentation. Highly temperature tolerant, it can even withstand ambient temperatures up to 95 degrees but works better at lower temperatures. In addition, 15% Trehalose acts as a ‘protectant’ sugar that helps your yeast cells withstand sudden osmotic shock or high temperature when introduced into new sugar solutions – helping the yeast cell stand firmer against sudden osmotic shock or high temperatures when introduced into new sugar solutions.

Use of this yeast is recommended with dextrose, glucose or fructose-based mashes; sucrose (ordinary white household sugar or castor sugar) cannot tolerate its high osmotic pressure concentration in such solutions and must be watered down accordingly to reduce pressure in the mash. Adding additional water can also help lower its pressure levels in this instance.

It is vital that Turbo yeast be added directly into a sugar solution without first being soaked; other brands require this step for best results. Soaking can have adverse effects on yeast cells by changing their osmotic pressure inside of each cell differently from outside, leading to cell rupture and explosion; which is why we always advise using low sugar solutions when using Turbo yeast.

Yeast can only function effectively in an environment rich in essential nutrients, and any reduction can lead to stuck or impure fermentations. This could happen for various reasons such as using an inappropriate strain of yeast, not adding enough nutrients, and/or the temperature being too high in solution.

Failures often stem from ineffective storage or reuse of old yeast. Old, dried Turbo Yeast has depleted levels of phospholipids – an essential cell membrane stabilizer – making the new yeast much more vulnerable to external influences and likely to stop fermenting altogether.

Turbo Pure 48 yeast boasts exceptionally low levels of volatile-producing yeast and offers an array of powerful nutrients and anti-volatile agents, making it suitable for use across all still types ranging from the basic Amazing Still to advanced fractional stills. In just two to three days it will ferment 6-8 kg of sugar to 14% alcohol within a 25 liter batch – perfect for fermenting any sugar or starchy mash mash!