Wine yeast for cider
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oblivious
Wine yeast for cider
Has any use wine yeast for cider, I have see Gervin No5 mentioned but have never tried it my self and would has any one gotten good results with one? I have tried Gervin English ale yeast and gotten good results with it.
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kt88man
I've used Gervin EC1118 / C / GV10 (wish they would stick with one name!) in the past with good success.
It's a high alcohol champagne yeast, which ferments to dryness, crisp and clear tasting, very clean. It ferments quite quickly, at the end of fermentation the yeast falls out of suspension quite quickly.
Currently have some turbo cider which is almost fermented to completion using the EC1118 strain, although this was Lalvin not Gervin.
I believe that Gervin 5 is very similar.
It's a high alcohol champagne yeast, which ferments to dryness, crisp and clear tasting, very clean. It ferments quite quickly, at the end of fermentation the yeast falls out of suspension quite quickly.
Currently have some turbo cider which is almost fermented to completion using the EC1118 strain, although this was Lalvin not Gervin.
I believe that Gervin 5 is very similar.