Prestige Turbo Yeast

Turbo Carbon provides fast, clean fermentations with high alcohol concentration. Specially formulated to ferment 6 kg of sugar across a wide temperature range and produce triple-distilled quality alcohol, Turbo Carbon should only be used where cool air temperatures (18-24C) can be maintained and in combination with Turbo Carbon.

Turbo yeasts may seem daunting to home distillers due to how quickly they work. At its core, turbo yeast is comprised of high-grade Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast mixed with nutrients designed to facilitate alcohol production as well as compounds designed to maintain an ideal mash pH level.

One major drawback of turbo yeast fermentation is that it may produce undesirable flavors during its cycle – this is often due to it going through fermentation too quickly, producing volatile compounds which impart unwanted flavors into your finished spirit.

Avoid this situation by carefully following the instructions in your package and ensuring your mash has reached an ideal temperature before adding Turbo yeast. High levels of alcohol produced by Turbo yeasts may cause excessive heat production during fermentation and result in unpleasant flavors as a side-effect of their use.

Avoiding this problem requires keeping liquid temperatures below 30 degrees C during fermentation or adding ice into the mash for cooling purposes. Both solutions may prove challenging when dealing with larger batch sizes; that is why our Black Label Turbo Yeast and Prestige Turbo Yeast sachets are “fully stackable”, enabling you to use one sachet per 25-liter batch (and two per 50-liter batch, etc).

Yeast are extremely resilient organisms and can withstand many factors, yet some conditions can cause fermentation to stop occurring, including low levels of phospholipids that bind oxygen molecules or low temperatures tolerance. To counter these problems we’ve added trehalose to each sachet of Prestige Turbo Yeast so as to maintain high concentrations of these essential chemicals and ensure successful fermentation is achieved.

Ferments often stall due to insufficient nutrients. There are various essential vitamins and minerals needed for optimal yeast performance that cannot be provided through grain alone; most come from within the yeast itself during cellular respiration and must be present for its metabolism and conversion of sugars into alcohol; without these nutrients the yeast would produce more volatiles, slow down fermentation time further or potentially die off altogether – we have included a complex blend of these vitamins and minerals into each packet of Turbo for maximum yeast performance!

Turbo yeast can be added directly into a sugar solution without first needing to be soaked – unlike some other strains which must first be soaked first. Soaking destroys part of the osmotic pressure differential between inside and outside cells of yeast cells, killing off their lives and rendering our sachets ready-for-use at any given moment.