Yeast
Premier Côte des Blancs — Red Star
Red Star
Representative The maker publishes no figures for this product, so these are class-typical values instead.
- Lab
- Red Star
- Product code
- Côte des Blancs
- Form
- dry
- Type
- ale
- Attenuation
- 85–95 %
- Temperature
- 17–30 °C
- Flocculation
- medium-low
- Alcohol tolerance
- 14 %
- STA1
- not published — treat as unknown
- Dosage
- 20–30 g/hL
Description
The Epernay 2 strain, and the Red Star wine yeast a cider or mead maker actually wants: slow, aromatic, and easy to arrest cool if you would rather leave sugar in the glass than ferment it out. Alcohol tolerance is the lowest of the range at 14 %, and it sulks below about 13 °C.