Red Star Red Star Premier Blanc Champagne Yeast (Pack of 10) & North Mountain Supply Food Grade Yeast Nutrient - 3.5 Ounce Jar

Juice Improvement

Take any good 100% juice that is preservative free or organic and make it better in a week or two. Recommended candidates are Apple, Grape both red and white, Cherry, Peach, Raspberry You get the idea. The nice thing is the juice comes with a the secondary fermenter. Store extra yeast packets in the freezer. Let them slowly come to room temperature before use. Its Easy. You will need A packet of magic juice enhancer - Red Star Champagne Yeast 2 Quart bottle of 100% juice that is preservative free or organic. A primary fermenter I use a cleaned and sanitized 1 gallon milk or water jug. Using the larger container minimizes the chances of a blow off mess. Its disposable so no need to clean after use. A drilled rubber stopper or bung that fits the jug A three peace air lock A Secondary fermenter. The rinsed and saved bottle the juice came in sanitize before reusing. A drilled rubber stopper or bung that fits the juice bottle The same air lock. A length of clear 3/8" vinyl tubing A dark place. Patients. 1. Rehydrate yeast. See packet instructions - 1/2 cup warm water. Watch for a few little bubbles to form. 2. pour juice in to the cleaned and sanitized 1 gallon jug airrating as you go Only at the beginning introducing oxygen is a good thing from now on should be avoided. 3. pitch yeast - pour it in the juice gently shake to mix. 4. plug the jog with the cleaned and sanitized bung and filled airlock. You can use water in the air lock but I prefer to use vodka as it prevents growth of unwanted little beasties. If the air pressure changes or when the jug is moved some gets sucked in to the jug using vodka will help to prevalent an infection of undesirable little beasties ruining your fun. 5. put in a dark place. 6. After a several hours or the next day check the airlock for bubbles and foam in the jug. Do not open or remove the bung or air lock to look inside. 7. wait a week or two. 8. siphon with the cleaned and sanitized tubing to the cleaned and sanitized secondary fermenter. The bottle the juice came in. Don't suck on the tube. Fill the tube with clean water. Pinch the tube closed a few inches from the outlet end. Insert the other end into the juice holding the other end lower let the water drain out in to a pot or other container. As soon juice starts to flow out pinch to stop the flow put the end in the juice bottle and let the juice flow holding both ends of the tube just below the surface. you want to minimize airration and leave any solids that may have settled out on the bottom or be floating on top from being transferred. 9. Taste!! Yum?! You could drink it now but. 10. plug with the stopper and refilled airlock. 11. put back in a dark place. 12. Wait a week or Two more. 13. chill 14. drink 15. Enjoy This was fun and easy so do it again. To carbonate. By now the little yeasties have used up all the sugars and need some more sugar to eat. Make a small wort/syrup by heating about 1/4 a cup of water to at least 165 degrees but not boiling ad 2 to 3 Tbsp's of sugar stir until thoroughly dissolved. Cover and cool to room temperature. Then fill a cleaned and sanitized 2 liter soda bottle with the syrup and juice and tightly cap. Gently shake to mix. Place upright in a dark place until rock hard about 2 to 3 days. place in the freezer for 15-20 minutes to quickly chill and send the yeasties to sleep. Move to the refrigerator to completely chill up right letting the yeasties settle out. Enjoy!! Hey, you just made wine!!!!!!!! This is a basic walk through of the steps. Experiment and see what works for you. The addition of yeast nutrient and yeast energizer can improve the process. Adding extra sugar can also boost alcohol levels. The most important thing is sanitation. I use Five Star Star-San, PBW and 1-step. IMPORTANT Read the instructions! Bleach and soap can leave a residue

222 persons found it helpful

Great yeast for high alcohol content…

I used this yeast in some cherry juice and let it sit for about a week and a half... After the required waiting time, I taste tested my product and to my surprise it had a very distinctive alcoholic taste... It tasted great and did its job to get me drunk... If you're looking for yeast that produces great alcohol, I'd definitely recommend this product..

49 persons found it helpful

Excellent!

I decided to make a batch of hard apple cider or apfelwein after reading about it on the internet. Used: 2 gallons of store-bought apple juice (no preservatives, made from concentrate), 2 pounds of table sugar, raisin juice (as a yeast nutrient) and one packet of red star champagne yeast. The batch started bubbling at 24 hours and at 14 days, the fermentation was complete. Not a great flavor profile, but I guess that depends on the quality of the fruit pulp that you put in. The yeast did its job very effectively. I was aiming for at least 12% ABV and the yeast managed to that, in 14 days. Pretty impressive. Since it is a wine yeast, it doesn't leave behind too much of a mess in the primary. Highly recommend this product if you are learning to brew wine at home

37 persons found it helpful

Never fails.

This has been my go-to mead making yeast for the past couple of decades. Always results in a clear, dry finish, with as much carbonation as I care to prime for. Also helps with stuck fermentation (add a few more grains either directly to the fermenter or make a starter). Note this is no longer being called "Pasteur Champagne," but now comes labeled "Premier Blanc." My sources assure me it's the identical yeast, and only the packaging has been changed

25 persons found it helpful

Great for making mead at home

I've been making honey mead for several years, and this is the brand of yeast I like best. It does a great job fermenting, without going crazy and foaming out of the container. I use a 1-gallon wine bottle and and an air lock, and in about a month I've got the starts to some great mead. Bread yeast doesn't work as well, and some other brands of wine or champagne yeast don't tolerate the alcohol content as well. I store the extra packets in the freezer and they're fresh and ready when I start a new batch

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Tips on Yeast starters

Chlorine kills yeast; You didn't use tap water did you? Champagne yeast is a slower yeast. I would suggest creating a starter batch first. Buy an Erlenmeyer flask and an airlock. (or a yeast starter kit. Pitch yeast distilled non chlorinated water (your favorite bottled water) and yeast nutriant(Sugar) into the flask. Apply the airlock to the top of the flask. Place in a dark place at around 70 - 75 degrees. (A closet or pantry) Return in a few days, you should have a yeast culture ready to use! (Throw the yeast into some apple juice!) :

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makes a great ginger beer

As a Christmas present for my husband, I said I would "perfect" a ginger beer recipe to his liking. For my first trial, I used regular bakers yeast (as that recipe called for) but it was too "yeasty" for our tastes. This yeast was much milder in flavor, while still giving us great carbonation. Our "perfect-for-us" recipe ended up using this yeast but only half as much as the recipe called for

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Great yeast processed well

Great yeast processed well. I used it for processing some mead. My first batch I mixed it with some water and then immediately pitched it. It activated in 24 hours and done its thing giving me an ABV of about 14%. On my second batch a "Cyser Mead" I actually let it soak for a full 20 minutes in 95 degree water and then pitched it. By the next day it had the same results and my brew was bubbling and air lock was clicking away. I am very happy with this yeast and would order it again. Just realize how much you are ordering and how much you need. I am storing the remaining yeast in the fridge and I hope it will still be good when I process my next couple of batches

15 persons found it helpful

Never had a bad ferment with this.

I've used this for two 5 gallon batches of hard apple cider (fermentation started within 4 hours both times), 5 gallons of apple/honey wine (fermentation took 8 hours to start, but finished perfectly), and 3 gallons of pineapple wine (took a full 24 hours for fermentation to begin, but after that it was like gangbusters). This yeast is perfect for hard cider because if you back-sweeten, the fermentation will start up again immediately to give you that nice carbonation you're looking for. It took only 10 days in the bottle for it to carbonate perfectly--then I sterilized the batch to stop it and it gets better every month. With wines, watch your SG because this yeast will continue producing alcohol up to 18%--my apple honey wine is about 17% and initially it was like rocket fuel. After a month in the bottle, it's beginning to mellow, but it'll take a good 6 months to smooth out. I shouldn't have added that quart of honey, but I was living dangerously..

15 persons found it helpful

Very active, and fast acting yeast

I bought this yeast to make a batch of homemade wine. I was figuring on about two weeks to complete, but four days later, our two gallon batch was completed. The hygrometer says its 11% alcohol. The yeast fell to the bottom of the carboy as sediment. I could not be happier for the quality or the price. I highly recommend this product

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