Distillers Yeast

Home Distilling Distillers Yeast

When you're fermenting a wash to distill, you want to get a good strong fermentation underway as soon as possible. A good fermentation equals a good distilled spirit. No matter if you're fermenting sugar cane, Canerite Panela Sugar or molasses (for rum), potatoes for Vodka or wine for Brandy,  Grape and Granary has the appropriate distillers yeast for your next run.

In our distillery, we have found that for Rum, a good Rum Turbo yeast is best. For brandy, a good wine yeast is best. Finally, for whiskey, if you want to create your own unique character, choose a beer yeast that produces some interesting flavors (like a Belgian ale yeast). If you do use a beer yeast, be sure to add some Amylo 300 to ensure that all the sugars are fermented into alcohol to increase your yield.

For a sugar wash (fermenting only table or corn sugar), use a turbo yeast. When making a clean tasting spirit from sugar which lacks nutrients, you will get a much faster and complete fermentaion with a turbo yeast designed for the job.

Our selection of distillers yeast can help turn your ingredients into high-quality alcohol quickly. Combined with our selection of high-quality grains for fermentation, you can be well on your way to making a great tasting product (with little or no hangover)!

Contact us if you have any questions regarding yeasts for home distillation.