Prestige Turbo Yeast is an instant yeast designed to enable home distillers to create triple distilled quality alcohol at a fraction of the cost of professional equipment. It works across a wide range of temperatures and only requires 6 kg (13.2 lb) or 8 kg (17.6 lb) of sugar for high ABV fermentation or 8 kg (17.6 lb) for fast speed fermentation; additionally it features mineral absorbents to further enhance its quality in your distillate.
Hambleton Bard Ltd now manufactures and distributes this instant yeast, initially developed by Gert Strand in Sweden during the 1980s, under its Alcotec brand. Through laboratory testing, this instant yeast has been refined to achieve maximum results from yeast. Unlike cheaper store mixtures that don’t provide all essential nutrients necessary for its proper functioning; distillers yeast lacks this source of nutrition and needs to be supplemented accordingly.
yeast requires complex vitamins and minerals in order to successfully turn sugar into alcohol, making it impossible to produce quality spirits from regular baker’s yeast alone due to slow fermentation rates or insufficient amounts of volatiles like acetaldehyde that give spirits their distinctive flavor and aroma.
An effective blend of very high alcohol tolerant yeast and vitamins can turn sugar into fine liquor in three days using 14% strain, and up to 18% within seven for stronger strain. Temperature control during fermentation is critical as liquid temperatures differ from ambient air temperatures by several degrees and cause an osmotic pressure between inside and outside yeast cells that causes them to die if left alone; so use a thermometer gauge or thermometer and follow package instructions accordingly for best results.
