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Probably relates to people in Australia more...

As part of my cheap apple shine endeavour I'm trying a new recipe.
At this point it's not needed to give the recipe (but I will anyway later) but I DO need info on the yeast provided with the Brigalow Apple Cider kit.
The kit is the same as all I guess but I boosted the sugar to do a single run. It has yeast nutrients provided. The label on the yeast just says "brewing yeast".
I'm more concerned with its alcohol tolerance. I put too much sugar in, basically.
If the yeast dies early I have bakers yeast but it will be stressed. I have Sn9 but they package it with a tiny bit of nutrients.

Anyone have any insight on the tolerance of kit yeasts?

Quality is not important, I have other means of obtaining such.

Recipe went as follows;

Dissolved 4kg of sugar in water and put it in fermenter.
Added 3 litres of reconstituted apple juice.
Added the cider kit.
Filled with water to 23L.
SG of 1.09! Whoops!
Added a quarter of a multi vitamin, a level teaspoon of wine nutrient (DAP) and the packaged yeast nutrient from the kit.
Gave it a stir, decided it was cool enough and pitched the kit yeast.

I like dirty apple shine.

SN9 at the ready.

You don't need kits. You don't need sugar. Buy apple juice and pitch bakers yeast.

I should have phoned them first, but now the info is published.
The yeast is good to around 9% and operates around 25 - 26 degrees Celsius. I presume other factors are similar to other yeasts.

Well to anyone that is interested, it turned out ok. Not great, but it still is fresh.
When the ferment slowed a bit and hit 1030 i put an EC 1118 starter in to finish off the job which it probably did quicker than i thought, but i left it to clear anyway, which it did really well (in a short time).
Single distilled. I collected in 20 glasses of 200 ml each, kept 4 - 10 and added half a glass of 11 and 3 each.
I didn't take any notice of the added artificial sweetener in the can, but i'm pretty sure it carried over a bit, when it was around 55% from proofing and put some in a glass with coca cola and the candy apple artificial flavour came through. Some chicks might dig it, and i was tolerant of it, but wasn't a fan. I'm sure it would serve its purpose somewhere in a UDL can... (hahahahaha).
I blended it only yesterday, sat in a bottle for a day then i diluted to ~42%ish. I ended up with about 2 litres.
Sipped a shot of now diluted ~42%ish and it tastes better straight than mixed this early in the game. Goes over the tongue smooth but slightly burns the throat on the way down. Still not as bad as some spirits i've bought and made.

Cost breakdown:
$15 Brigalow Apple Cider Kit
$0.04 1/4 vitamin
$0.40 Wine Nutrient (I've seen the same item anywhere from $5 to $10 for 100g)
$3.60 4 kg of white sugar
$5 for reconstituted brand name apple juice
water was negligable.
$24.04 total.
$12.02 per litre.
Still a win.