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CellarScience® MONK Dry Yeast | Belgian Abbey Ale | Premium Beer Yeast

CellarScience® MONK Dry Yeast | Belgian Abbey Ale | Premium Beer Yeast

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Description

  • MONK is a classic Belgian ale strain renowned for producing clean, yet complex, beers
  • Perfect for Belgian-style Blondes and Pales or Abbey-style Dubbels, Trippels, and Quads
  • Designed to be sprinkled directly onto the surface of your wort with no pre-oxygenation before pitching required
  • Ferment between 62-77°F
  • CellarScience offers high-quality yeast that is easy to use, consistent, and available at a tremendous value

A classic Belgian ale strain renowned for producing clean, yet complex, beers. Perfect for Belgian-style Blondes and Pales or Abbey-style Dubbels, Trippels, and Quads. A clean strain that will still impart some delicate dried fruit notes and restrained phenolics. Like all CellarScience yeast, MONK is eligible for direct pitch straight into your wort. CellarScience provides 12g of yeast per sachet, which is up to 9% more than any other brand of dry yeast. Every batch of yeast is PCR tested to ensure quality.

Dosage:
One sachet is enough to treat a 5–6 gallon batch. When calculating for larger batches, use at a rate of 2–3 grams per gallon of wort. We recommend rounding up by one full sachet rather than measuring out the yeast exactly.

Direct Pitch or Rehydrate:
MONK yeast is designed to be sprinkled directly onto the surface of your wort with no oxygenation required in the initial fermentation. Our aerobic growth process makes this possible by creating dry yeast with high viability and high sterol levels. MONK yeast is pre-loaded with essential nutrients to ensure a successful, complete fermentation. While not required, some brewers prefer to rehydrate yeast. To hydrate yeast, first, sanitize the yeast brick and scissors. Use 10 grams of sterilized tap water between 85-95°F (29-35°C) mixed with 0.25 grams of FermStart per gram of yeast. Sprinkle yeast on the water. Allow the slurry to stand undisturbed for 20 minutes, then swirl. Use small amounts of wort to adjust to within 10°F (6°C) of wort temperature before pitching. Ferment between 62-77°F (16-25°C).

Optimum Fermentation Temp: 62-77°F
Flocculation: Medium
Alcohol Tolerance: 12% ABV (WY1762 12%)
Attenuation: 75-85%
Similar Strains: WY1762, WLP540
Gluten-free
 

CellarScience Yeast:
For years liquid yeast has been sold as the higher quality option but times are changing. Yes, 20 years ago dry yeast was made by bread yeast producers and the quality was not as good as liquid yeast. CellarScience is helping to flip that script with a full lineup of high-quality dry yeasts. Cell count and viability is usually higher than commercial liquid yeast pitches, which vary from pouch to pouch and don't ship well. CellarScience yeast can be pitched directly in most batches of wort, offering significant time savings. Yeast that is quick and easy to use, high quality, and available at a reasonable cost adds up to a tremendous value. Quality yeast that doesn't "break the brink".

CellarScience Nutrients:
For high gravity ferments consider rehydrating yeast with CellarScience FermStart yeast hydration nutrient. For high gravity or low nutrient wort, feed your fermentation with CellarScience FermFed DAP Free complex yeast nutrient mix.

 

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Bargain
Darrell B on Mar 4, 2023
Making mead
John w h on Jan 9, 2023
Bargain
Darrell B on Mar 4, 2023
Needy
william elliott I on Jan 17, 2023
Making mead
John w h on Jan 9, 2023
a gift for my husband
Michelle L C on Nov 10, 2022
I like the name Monk Yeast... and I love Belgian beers... plus I can do maths
David K on Apr 28, 2022
Needy
william elliott I on Jan 17, 2023
a gift for my husband
Michelle L C on Nov 10, 2022
What is the alcohol tolerance level for this yeast?
Robb D on Oct 20, 2022
BEST ANSWER: 12%
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Rated 1 out of 5
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I was really excited to try this yeast, as it looked like it would pair really well with dark malts and is an MoreBeer exclusive dry yeast strain.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out. I've been brewing exclusively with dry yeast and have never seen one not show signs of active fermentation within 24 hours.
I make a Belgian Pale Ale wort with 100% barley, mashed for one hour at 153 degrees, and the wort had an OG of 1.051. It should be highly fermentable.
The package instructions say you can get great results by direct pitching, and I've direct pitched with other brands with great results. I pitched 8 grams into a 3 gallon batch, which is a slight overpitch but it has always worked out in the past.
Well, I'm 28 hours in and its still lifeless and smells like unfermented wort. I pitched dry yeast from another brand to get it going.
Bottom line, spend the extra $2-3 and get something that is easier to use.
April 29, 2024
Rated 5 out of 5
Description is spot on.
I used Monk in a Biere de Garde and the somewhat delicate esters played nicely with the rich malt profile. I would point out however that the beer definitely comes across as "Belgian". I'm planning on trying it in a Belgian Pale Ale soon. Would highly recommend. And to think, I was almost on the "brink of breaking the bank".
December 11, 2023