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Yeast for Winemaking and for Homebrew

Yeast for Wine kits, restarting wine. Home brew country wines or just about anything winemaking!

There's lots of yeast available, the same yeasts have different names. Champagne yeasts might be called sparkling or restart yeast. We've tried to say which yeast is best for what!   If you need a yeast for your home brew kit the No 1 will do the job!

If all you need is one yeast or a couple of light items that we can put in the envelope, you can pack the cash in a bit of cardboard and put it in a thick envelope, please put two first class stamps on the one to us. Then send us  a SAE and post it to us with the money. If you are sending notes or cheque, 1 stamp would be sufficient. - don't forget to tell us which yeast you want! We'll post it back by return.
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Tub All Purpose Yeast 50 g
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A small tub of all purpose wine yeast, enough for about 5 separate one gallon batches.
It's a good quality yeast and it will keep a couple of months once opened. It's not good to use it a year after it's opened though. So throw it away at the end of the season!

Gervin no 1 -Green label- All purpose wine yeast
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If you want a general purpose yeast this is it!

Good for everything, nice clean bouquet fast to settle.

Gervin No2 (Burgundy Wine Yeast) For Red wine and red fruits

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Use for red grapes and any red fruit, eg Damson, Elderberry, Blackberry , sloe etc.

Also known as Burgundy yeast.

It's also very good at overpowering wild yeast so you get a good clean fermentation.

Gervin no3 (Champagne Wine Yeast) White wine and white fruit,

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Use for Elderflowers, apples, pears etc.

Especially good for making sparkling wines and restarting a stuck wine

Very popular yeast which also doubles as an all purpose yeast.

GervinGV4 (Port) High Alcohol Yeast
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Excellent high alcohol yeast, for full bodied desert wines or if you just want a bit more alcohol!

This is the purple yeast! It will produce up to 21% alcohol. If you're after the really high alcohol then it's this one.

Best used with a good yeast nutrient.

Gervin GV 5 Cold Fermenting Yeast
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Ferments down to 8 C. When used at a low temperature it preserves the delicate bouquet and flavour of fruits

Especially for sweet or dry fruit wines- Slow fermenting.

Gervin GV6 (Sauternes Wine Yeast)
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For sweet white wines or any wine which is asking for Sauternes yeast!

Will ferment down to 5 c, used to be known as cold fermenting yeast

Gervin GV10 (Tokay Wine Yeast) Winemaking Yeast
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Strong sweet white wines.
Very similar yeast  to no 3. More suited to rose wines and can produce up to 18.5 % alcohol.

Gervin A -(Bordeaux Wine Yeast) Quality Red Wines
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Also for light red fruit wines- So if you're going to make a blackberry and apple it would be fine. Or a light raspberry.
Also for those Claret style wines. Doesn't boil off the bouquet on the more delicate fruits.

Gervin B (Hock Yeast ) Light white wines
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Good for German style wines from white or green fruit.
Also good for Gooseberries and Rhubarb. Works with Malic acid in the fruit to produce the best bouquet. Best to ferment at a slightly lower temperature to preserve the bouquet. Ferments down to 10 degrees.

Gervin Wine Yeast Varietal D. GV11
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Excellent for fine white wines. Fast to ferment.
Reduces the malic acid content so good with apples and very suited to gooseberries.

Yeast Nutrient Small Tub
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Enough for about 6x 1gall of wine

 

Click Here for yeast nutrient!

Yeast nutrient is like a vitamin boost for yeast. Some recipes ask for it, some don't! If you're going for high alcohol wines or making from flowers with very little natural nutrients then it's best to add it.

Most wines from fruit that are aimed at about 12% will get by without.

Cider Yeast for 5 Gallons
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