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).
