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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

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 can be direct pitched with great results by sprinkling it onto the surface of the wort in your fermenter. However, proper hydration helps ensure a healthy fermentation and is especially recommended for beer with a starting gravity above 15°P (1.061 SG). To hydrate yeast, first sanitize the yeast pack and a pair of scissors. Boil tap water to sterilize and then cool to 85-95°F (29-35°C). Use 10 grams (0.35 oz) of water per gram of yeast. Sprinkle the yeast onto the water, allow the slurry to stand undisturbed for 20 minutes, and then swirl. Use small amounts of wort to adjust the temperature of the slurry to within 10°F (6°C) of the wort temp before pitching. Ferment between 62-75°F (17-24°C).

Optimum Fermentation Temp: 62-75°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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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 III 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 Kromann on Apr 28, 2022
Needy
william elliott III 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 Denney on Oct 20, 2022
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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