Homebrew Wine & Beer Yeasts
Choosing the yeast to use in your homebrew beer or wine is not just about turning sugar to alcohol during fermentation. Yeasts do more than that. There are thousands of different strains of yeast and they all produce different flavours and feel.
Yeast don't just eat sugar either. They consume other compounds in the liquor and convert these into new ones. This is why grape juice doesn't taste like wine. It has been chemically altered by the wine yeast and the fermentation process.
Yeasts produce lots of different flavours while they are fermenting your beer, lager, wine or cider. Some work well in beer, but don't work well in wine. So selecting a beer yeast to give the flavour you want is crucial. Yeast can also cause a beer to be hazy, so it's all about the look too.
Shop our range of the most popular yeast brands for brewing wine, beer, champagne, cider and lager.
A small sachet will easily ferment 25 litres. However, even if you are making a smaller quantity, just use the whole sachet. Yeast have to multiply and will keep multiplying until they have filled the vessel, simply adding more in at the beginning will just help speed up the process and your fermentation will begin sooner.
You may also be interested in our homebrew sugars and spraymalts, or our homebrew ingredients departments for anything else you need to make your own beer or wine.
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You will have the fermenter foaming all over the floor and walls but you will have the real quality that you want .
Made fruit wines of all types for years and on some as a hobby , had a go last year base level wine kit and so so ,a bit sweet ok if you only want to get well oiled . But this added to a kit is wow for a nearly sixty year old wine drinker just try adding half the bottle to your next 30 bottle kit you will never go back.
Very good works a treat.makes the wine look professional and attractive to the coinesseur.
I made my first ever wine, blackberry wine using this bag after following David on his Youtube video, great product, less mess and easy to use. Thank you David for your help and support with my order.
Easy kit to brew. Pleasant, very refreshing apple flavour ideal for lazy summer days in the sun. Very impressed and intend to try others in this range.👍
Brilliant wine, easy to make and tastes superb.
Have made this Grapefruit IPA as one of my regular brews, always enjoy it's refreshing and citrusy taste for a change. Best to use liquid malt extract in place of sugar for best results. Have 40 pints brewing now !
Young's Cellar 7 Pino Grigio is very simple to make and never goes wrong if you follow the instructions and have the right equipment. It only takes about a week to ferment and, if you let it mature for about a month or so, it tastes better than the average supermarket wine. Brewbitz are a great supplier with a personal touch and fast delivery
I have using this product for many years and never had a failure
Arrived quickly and as described
I used this product to clear three brews: 1 gallon of Cyser, 1 gallon of elderberry melomel and 1 gallon of metheglin. All 3 were crystal clear within 24 hours. I will certainly use it again.
Wonderful wine..used to pick my own fruit in the hedgerows for years…..no more have tried most of the different wines and they are all fantastic!
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I buy this wine regularly and get a very reliable service from the team at Brewbitz
I'd decided to make a port-style wine, so I was looking for a yeast with good tolerances for both sugar and alcohol (since I would be feeding the fermenting must with sugar to reach as near to 20% alcohol as I could) - and this one fits the bill.
This strain also offers the possibility of producing a higher level of glycerol, which won't go amiss.
After a month and three additions of sugar it's still bubbling away.
This is the first time I've used oak chips, but these came at a good price and were delivered swiftly
Lovely wine and excellent service from BB
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