Youngs all purpose white wine yeast is a hard working, excellent strain suitable for a wide range of applications and can also be used when making fruit wines.

Technical Info

Alcohol tolerance: 18% v/v
SO2 tolerance: High
Foaming: Medium
Low production of urea
Low production of fusel oils
Viability: >1.2x 10 CFU/g

Rehydration

During yeast manufacture, special processs are employed to promote very high leveles of the natural compound - Trehalose within the yeast.

Trehalose is a natural sugar produced within the yeast cells to protect itself during prolonged storage and stress conditions.

The very high levels of trehalose acheieved also remove the need for re-hydration before adding to must or wort - there is now no advantage in doing this even for high alcohol wines.