Yeast
Premier Rouge — 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
- Premier Rouge
- Form
- dry
- Type
- ale
- Attenuation
- 93–100 %
- Temperature
- 17–30 °C
- Flocculation
- medium
- Alcohol tolerance
- 15 %
- STA1
- not published — treat as unknown
- Dosage
- 20–30 g/hL
Description
Formerly Pasteur Red: a Pasteur Institute isolate picked for full-bodied reds, where it pulls polyphenols hard and builds structure rather than simple fruit. It wants a controlled 17–30 °C and tolerates 15 % alcohol, which makes it a sane pitch for a dark fruit wine or a heavy melomel.