Features:

  • Used for fermentation of all types of distilled spirits
  • Versatile and fast fermenting
  • Preferred temperature range of 70°-90°F
Cheap, easy and very much alive

I, for one, had very good results with this bulk yeast. Good idea to run a starter when you use it, just in case you need to run out and replace it. Still, it activated within minutes, and my bucket was bubbling by 2 hours! Good stuff. BTW, an easy starter for 5 gallons of brew is: 1/2 cup warm (110F or so) water in a sanitized container, 1 tablespoon yeast, 2 teaspoons sugar. Within 20 minutes it should fluff up to about double the size. Then you can just stir it into your wort/mash. Good luck!

Good results for brewing standard quality beer

In this review I only intend to report my experience using this yeast for making basic beer. First of all, I am progressively learning how to make complex recipe beers. At the moment, I am a sort of SMASH (Single Malt and Single Hop) guy... well, not exactly, I am a Single Malt Extract and Single Hop kind of guy. So far, I do not have high expectations when I make beer. At this stage, I only expect to get a drinkable liquid, really. I have used this yeast a couple of times and I have got good results. First, with Dark Ale Malt Extract and the second time with Wheat Beer Malt Extract, adding the hops myself. I can't notice any off-flavor but I am not a qualified beer taster either. I have been more than happy with the results using this yeast. Probably with time I will get more fussy about my brewing outcome.

Works great and makes just about anything

This yeast is a real workhorse and ferments just about anything. As expected, it does not have any discernible yeast profile and tastes neutral. I have found this useful in making S.M.A.S.H. beers where I really want to taste the malt and/or the hops without yeast getting in the way. I have used this for beer, wine, fruit wine, mead and erm, distilling fuel for my lawnmower (mine requires a lightly peated single malt barrel aged fuel). Do not expect this to be turbo yeast; it does not finish in 48 hours. In fact, a molasses and sugar wash takes almost a month to ferment out. No problem, I'm not in any hurry.

Aquarium DIY CO2

Works well. I use this for DIY CO2 in my aquarium because this yeast has a higher tolerance for alcohol. In the winter my home is around 65 degrees and the little guys still produce just fine.

This stuff works crazy good! I mix it with warm water and equal ...

This stuff works crazy good! I mix it with warm water and equal parts yeast/sugar. Only took about 2 minutes to rise up so hard it almost came out of the glass. Poured it in my fermenter and within minutes it was bubbling like crazy! Bubbled at least 2 days longer than other turbo yeasts I've tried, and costs much less. My new "go-to"!

Robust and durable

Used about an ounce for 5 gal bottle with 1 lb rice and 7 lb sugar - got an expected (from liquor yeast) yield of ~8 oz spirit (100%) per 1 lb of sugar, after heads&tails separation. A nice sake-like flavor from rice went along. Went on with another mash, only added sugar (old rice and yeast) - the fermentation started in a day and still goes - without excessive foaming but steadily. Overall - I like it. Haven't been able to figure out the flavor that the yeast explicitly give yet.

Works great and produces a good alcohol content

Very active yeast for beer and wine fermentation. Works great and produces a good alcohol content.

This makes the best hooch. I make wine from juice concentrate from ...

This makes the best hooch. I make wine from juice concentrate from time to time because it's fun to experiment with something cheap like juice concentrate to hold me over while my good wine/mead/cider ages. In the quest to find a recipe that produces something strong and drinkable in the shortest amount of time I started looking into distiller's yeast. It makes sense; this stuff is meant to make a quick and crazy high ABV, which was what I was going for. I figured for $10 I would switch it out with my usual slow fermenting champagne yeast and give it a shot and I'm so glad that I did. I drink this stuff while it's still bubbling and it tastes great and it definitely gets the job done. I've also let it sit and turn my hooch into rocket fuel, which is still pretty tasty if you're in the mood and it DEFINITELY gets the job done. Haven't tried to age the rocket fuel yet, but that'd be a fun experiment. All things equal I'd narrowly take champagne yeast concentrate wine over DADY, but all things are not equal and this it way quicker/higher ABV. Per gallon: 2 cans juice concentrate (I like apple or grape juice but I've literally closed my eyes in the concentrate frozen section and grabbed two random cans and it turned out decent, experiment/have fun with it, just don't do orange juice), 1 1/2 cups of sugar, 1 tsp of this yeast. Add the concentrate and sugar to an old Carlo Rossi gallon wine jug (if you don't have one go buy one and drink it all). Fill most of the way with warm water, but don't fill it above the handle or it'll foam out when it's fermenting. Shake until the sugar dissolves. Get a cup of about 100 degree water (warm/hot but colder than a shower) and add the yeast and a pinch or two of sugar. Stir and let it sit for about ten minutes until it's nice and foamy, then pour it in. I cover it with a CLEAN sock and a hairband or rubber band to keep bugs out and allow air in. After a couple days you can add an airlock but I usually don't bother. Taste and drink as much as you want, I usually start slowly drinking it at about four days in.

Yeast was alive, low lag time

I'm not sure how to rate this other than 5* for living yeast. My main concern was that I would receive yeast that would be old and terrible, but with some yeast nutrient this had a lag time of 4 hours for my last batch, which was incredible.

expect to have a great end product

Mixed my mash one evening, next morning after cooling time, added warm sugar/water mix and Distiller's Yeast,, it was working after 30 minutes,,,expect to have a great end product! Thanks Red Star! Update! Mash fermented for 17 days, came out clearest I've ever seen. Cant wait to distill and taste!

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