Red Star Pasteur Red yeast

Oct 03, 2003 8 Replies
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This is more of a mead related question, but since I used a wine strain...



Last night I pitched a packet of Red Star Pasteur Red yeast into a pyment mead with an original gravity of 1.110. How far down will Pasteur Red ferment? I've searched the web but could not find any info on this.



By the way, this was a fast start to the ferment. I was mixing this pyment mead up while watching the pregame show for the Cubs and Braves game on Friday night. And by the late innings, with my Cubbies in control of the game, the mead was already fermenting.


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"Negodki" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

Does Red Star have a wine yeast site? I went to their site, or so I think I did, but the only yeast info that they had was for baking. I did a Google search, and found links that pointed to the same site, but the URLs no longer worked.

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According to the manufacturer, Red Star Pasteur Red has a rated yeast-tolerance of 16%.

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To my knowledge, Red Star does not maintain a separate wine yeast site, or even mention that product line on their main website.

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The Oregon Brew Crew is in the midst of completing an experiment on mead where we took 30 gallons of 1.110 mead and split it between six different yeasts. The Red Star finished at 1.004. Our tasting is scheduled for early Nov.

-Danno

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Are you also referring to Red Star Pastuer Yeast? Or another Red Star yeast.

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When did you start these meads? I hope you are posting the results in full on this site and on the Mead site.

Ray

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Hmm, not knowing much about wine yeasts....yet.... I just typed in Red Star. It's Pasteur Red.

-Danno

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Our goal is to publish the results. Where, I don't know as I'm not the one running the experiment. Being a homebrew club, Zymurgy will be our likely target. I will commit to posting the results here and in the mead and brewing NG's.

How about I throw out a few more data points:

Cotes des Blancs finished @ 1.004

1056 American Ale finished @ 1.012 Sweat Mead finished @ 1.000 Portwine finished @ 1.020 71B-1122 finished @ 1.018

-Danno

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