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CellarScience® SAISON Dry Yeast | Saison Ale | Premium Beer Yeast

CellarScience® SAISON Dry Yeast | Saison Ale | Premium Beer Yeast

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  • SAISON imparts lovely hints of fruit and citrus plus all the classic spicy phenolic flavors you expect in Saison and Biere de Garde style beer
  • Ferments very dry while producing a beer with soft malt body and rich mouthfeel
  • Designed to be sprinkled directly onto the surface of your wort with no pre-oxygenation before pitching required
  • Ferment between 62-75°F
  • CellarScience offers high-quality yeast that is easy to use, consistent, and available at a tremendous value

Ferment delicious Saisons with hints of fruit and citrus plus all the classic spicy phenolic flavors. SAISON ferments very dry but leaves behind a beer with a soft malt body and rich mouthfeel. Like all CellarScience yeast, SAISON 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:
SAISON 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. SAISON 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 62-75°F (17-24°C).

Optimum Fermentation Temp: 62-75°F
Flocculation: Low
Alcohol Tolerance: 12% ABV (WY3711 12%, IYB64 12%)
Attenuation: up to 95%
Similar Strains: WY3711
Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus
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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It said biere de garde.
Daniel W on Dec 20, 2022
It said biere de garde.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Love this yeast
Makes a champagne like Saison. I love it.
April 1, 2024
Rated 5 out of 5
Very interesting Yeast!
I have never brewed a Saison yeast before. I decided to do a split batch on an English IPA and used safale 05 on one and this Saison on the other. the Saison definitely has more flavor - a little spicy and it really ate down the OG. My Saison split got to 1.009 FG and my Safale 05 split got to 1.015 - so almost an entire whole percent more alcohol with the Saison!
May 23, 2023