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26 Jan, 2018
Excellent all-purpose strain
5 of 5 found this helpful When used properly this strain is a monster. I have become a brewing addict over the past couple years and in the winter when I do not have access to affordable fresh fruit I have found that some frozen juices make pretty decent wine. They clear up really quickly and do not need much aging to taste OK. This is the strain I use when doing so. It can handle the fructose that most delicate strains of yeast give up on. Not to mention it does so very quickly. With a SG over 1.1 this strain will ferment the frozen juice and clear out in around 10 days. Pretty remarkable. I dont even use campden on those batches bc it ferments before any spoilage can occur. Just sanitize, dump the frozen concentrate in my fermenter, add warm water and bring it up to temp, add my nutrients and energizer and sprinkle a couple packets of this on top. Nutrients and energizer are a MUST with frozen juice from the store. This strain is not recommended when making wine from fruit as it leaves none of the 'essence' in the final product. It is just really good at turning sugar into alcohol :) and thats about it, but it does so very quickly and can tolerate higher gravity fermentations. Would possibly be suitable for distilling and isnt nearly as rough as a Turbo strain. Like I mentioned, I use it for a particular frozen concentrate recipe that I have almost perfected and it works very well in this scenario where other strains, including K1V, give up about 2/3 of the way through.