Yeast
SafAle BW-20 — Fermentis
Fermentis
Spec sheet The maker publishes these figures for this exact product.
- Lab
- Fermentis
- Product code
- BW-20
- Form
- dry
- Type
- ale
- Attenuation
- 77–83 %
- Temperature
- 18–26 °C
- Flocculation
- low
- Alcohol tolerance
- not published as a number
- STA1
- not published — treat as unknown
- Dosage
- 50–80 g/hL
Description
Built for Belgian witbier rather than adapted to it: fruity and restrained where a weissbier strain is loud, with pepper and clove instead of banana. The low flocculation is the point — it stays in suspension and keeps the white haze a wit is supposed to have.