I am an inveterate home wine maker with many years experience and have tried probably every wine yeast on the market. Red Star is the best and most consistent yeast available. Don't waste your time or money on the cheaper brands. The different yeasts will give different tastes and sometimes pleasantly surprise you. Try them all as I have. Having said that I always come back to Montrachet. I have not been compensated for my review.
using this to make home made cider and wine. one 5 g packet will ferment a whole 5 gallon bucket! as long as you don't use too much of it it ferments fast without that "fart" smell you get from bakers yeast. for sure this was worth the money and the wait. I got 20 packets for just over 12$ plus free shipping! great deal, great product.
This yeast strain is truly fool-proof. Fermentation temps only affect speed of fermentation, not flavor, which in my house is a plus! It was such a great price I ordered 2 (20 packets) but saw after getting them was disappointed to find they were 16 months old, 8 months away from expiration. I typically use 5-10 a year, so I guess when they are past expiration, I'll double or triple pitch, which defeats the purpose of getting them at such a good price!
I had to reduce my stars... this stuff is great when it works... half way through my last batch of this yeast, it wil not activate... I had stuck fermentations before that,..suppose to be go until 2020..off to the brewstore to get more... all I use is Red Star.. Guessing I got a bad batch.. been using this for years and first time I ran into this issue....okay back to 5 stars.. I was killing the yeast by putting the yeast nutrient in (5 tsp) with the sugar and just a bit of water to start the yeast.. put the nutrient in the beer/wine.. not the yeast starter..
I started making wine just a few months ago. Being the bone-headed "show me" type of person, I thought i'd give a few types of Yeast a test run. Red Star Montrachet wine yeast has been great for my first purple grape wine. The result was a very enjoyable first attempt at wine making.
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- Premier Classique formerly Montrachet Red Star for Wine Making
Description
Premier Classique formerly Montrachet. A strong fermenter with good alcohol tolerance that is useful in producing dry, full bodied red and white wines. Will leave a wine with intense color and excellent flavor complexity while preserving tannin content. This yeast will produce hydrogen sulfide gas in the presence of excess sulfur compounds and therefore should not be used to ferment grapes that contain residual sulfur dust. Temperature range: 59-86 F. Alcohol Tolerance: 13%.
I am using this for Blaand. I am not a pro at wine-making by any stretch... I've made wine a few times.. so I figured this was a good place to start. All my packets, ordered in 4/19 and arrived with exp date of 11/22. IMO, plenty of time to use. We added the yeast to the whey last night and the pic the following day shows lots of bubbles. The yeast is doing its job. The yeast smells like yeast, bready, you know. No complaints. It is doing what yeast does. It arrived timely, and with plenty of time to use by the exp date.
This is the yeast I was using when I started brewing mead and so far those first batches taste great. I tried yeasts with stronger alcohol tolerance and they need to be back sweetened a lot so I think I'll be switching back to this one.
When I first racked the wine I had a subtle smell I found disagreeable. Noone else could smell it though. The smell lasted even up till I bottled the wine. As it has aged a few months the smell is gone, replaced by a delicious aroma. I am using this yeast to make 15 more gallons of Blueberry wine with a starting SG of ~1.090-1.094
So far so good. My batches are bubbling away, so the yeast is working. I made Apple Wine and Apple/Grape Wine. I've chosen a different yeast for my mead to preserve sweetness.
How good the flavor will be in these two batches depends on a lot of factors but we will see and I will update later.
Better flavor than using bread yeast. Not using any nutrient or energizer and works well fermenting without it, but I'm just using store bought juice so I can't really say how different it would work with the added ingredients.
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