Yellow label yeast?

[bluc]

Real-world experience trumps everything, but I've read a lot of disparaging things about Angel Yellow that seem to be just poor sanitation ("smells like a dead racoon", etc.). With some mild pasteurization, those issues would likely go away. Certainly not a necessity, but there's no magic anti-bacterial action to Angel Yellow.

So does souring it, adding backset..bad smell is definately infection. Any acid will work backset or citric are my go too's.

[bluc]

Have you experimented much with temp Bluc......keeping it at the recommended optimum of 32c, I thought mine did better when I kept it close to that temp.
Having said that recommended low is 26c and the high is 38, so it should be fairly forgiving Temp wise.

Missed this. No have not tried higher ferment time yet. I figure heating adds unessacary cost. At some point I will try to make sure I am not missing anything.
Bits for my stripper are arriving over next few weeks look forward to that also.

[bluc]

I waited about 3 months months to get this angel yeast so in the end I wasted 2 off 20 kg sack of grain for a total.......... 3.5 litres to 60% on my 4" bubbler and as far as the taste went one would be better drinking toilet water......

Now my last AG over 4 generations got 21 litres @65% for aging and after aging for 4 months it tasted better than my first AG run the year before.

so the hype over this yeast is way over rated when compared with doing a proper AG

Funny I get poor vol traditional mashing and good volume with this method.. i keep about 7l@65 from sack grain

[CoogeeBoy]

Yes most likely this yeast will ferment the kitchen sink into something you could clean your floor with

"Most likely"? Explain.

You mean it could turn into a new wife?

[Metalking00]

I just finished a spirit run yesterday of corn, barley and wheat bourbon. The ferments smelled good the whole time, yield was excellent and the finished product tastes and smells great. I think its worth using.

[Saltbush Bill]

I wasted 2 off 20 kg sack of grain for a total.......... 3.5 litres to 60% on my 4" bubbler and as far as the taste went one would be better drinking toilet water......

so the hype over this yeast is way over rated when compared with doing a proper AG

Seems to me at this early stage that very few people are getting bad results using this stuff.
Have you considered that maybe there was some other reason for your fail and that it might not have been the yeast at fault?

[NZChris]

I waited about 3 months months to get this angel yeast so in the end I wasted 2 off 20 kg sack of grain for a total.......... 3.5 litres to 60% on my 4" bubbler and as far as the taste went one would be better drinking toilet water......

Now my last AG over 4 generations got 21 litres @65% for aging and after aging for 4 months it tasted better than my first AG run the year before.

so the hype over this yeast is way over rated when compared with doing a proper AG

How closely did you follow their instructions? All of my ferments have been done choosing the middle or the optimum all the way and I've had no poor results yet.

[rubberduck71]

+1 to NZChris experience with this stuff. No poor results here either & I've been using it for over a year.

[Teddysad]

I always have a batch on working with Yellow Label, however I also do others with the cooking / enzymes system for speed ( and I have the equipment as well)

[squigglefunk]

so the hype over this yeast is way over rated when compared with doing a proper AG

if nothing else, I could see that the process of cooking the grains could make things taste different than fermenting raw grains.

[Sarge410884]

I have have made several batches of jasmine rice, sugar, and both dady and yellow label combine and it makes a wonderful product.
Sarge

[SGB]

I'm trying a test run with bananas and a bit of dme just curious.. We grow bananas ..did a mix of both green and ripe

[Richard Wouter]

I'm very interested to hear the result of the banana wash?