Features:

  • 5 gram package
  • Active dry wine yeast
  • Recommended for cabernet, cider, dry whites, fruits, meads, port, and sodas
Kool Aid Wine

I add 1/8 teaspoon of this yeast with a cup of sugar in a 2 liter plastic soda bottle. Then I fill it to within 2" of the top with hot water straight from the tap. I seal it tightly, shake it until the sugar dissolves, and then cover it with a towel. I slowly loosen the top the next day to release the pressure, and then with the top still loose I cover it again and wait a week or two. I have six bottles in rotation. I like to put the date on a piece of masking tape just so I know how old they are. When they are ripe I pour it slowly into a gallon pitcher and then add Black Cherry Kool-Aid. Other flavors will work, but I like that one. You won't get drunk, but it will take the edge off.

First time making wine

It's a must buy for any one who is start out because you don't have to worry about stuck fermentation and it works fast. When I made my first yeast baby I used 2 64oz of 100% fruit juice, two cups of sugar and one packet of yeast. It look like nothing was happening, and once I put in another packet of yeast it quickly started working. It only took a week for it to finish and not 2 weeks like people were saying. It produced a dry (not sweet) wine that can be enjoyed.

Great for making alcohol and pizza 🍕

This is a great deal. I only needed 1 pack of yeast but it was cheaper to buy in bulk. I gave some to my friend that makes pizza all the time and I used 1/5 of a pack to make apple ale (very tasty btw 😋)

Fermentation is GO

Our Fermentation took off in under 30 minutes! E491 is a great blanc strain and this RED STAR is working very well so far. We did rehydrate per instructions, added yeast food (acids/vit/minerals), and aerated in our fermentor prior to the pitching. We also keep our yeasts in a ziplock in the freezer untill ready to use, in this way they last years past experation dates on packaging. Delicious wine awaits!

Five Stars

Love to use in ciders

All good

Fast delivery. They say, this is the same as the champagne yeast which this replaces, but it seems different to me. But different in a good way, i like the Blanc yeast better.

Worked great on my ginger beer and cherry juice fermentations - ...

Worked great on my ginger beer and cherry juice fermentations - not so well on red grape juice but I didn't expect it too.

Fast fermentation

This yeast turned a mulberry must to 13% alcohol in 5 days. Must be good stuff. The must is still in secondary fermentation so I do t know how it will turn out. It’s my first time mak g wine and I am a bit concerned that the must went too long in primary fermentation.

3 lbs of honey and above will produce a sweet mead with a FG above 1

The eleven packets are "forcing" me to brew eleven batches of mead. On batch number 5 now and found that the alcohol saturate level for this yeast is between 13.5% and 13.9%. <3 lbs of honey will produce a dry mead with the FG around 1.0 or less. Between 3-3.2 lbs will produce a semi-sweet with a FG around 1.02. 3.3 lbs of honey and above will produce a sweet mead with a FG above 1.02. Made a Cherry Melomel (sweet), Cyser (semi-sweet), an Orange Blossom Mead (dry), and a Blackberry Melomel (dry). Making a Mesquite Honey Mead this weekend.

This is a really good product. Seeing as it's been about a week

I've used it three times (once for hard cider and twice for fruit mead) and it's gotten fermentation going fast. Even using half a package is enough... and gets it so excited that I see my brews bubbling into my airlocks. This is a really good product. Seeing as it's been about a week, my brews aren't finished so I can't comment on the taste this creates.

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