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Craft Distillery
Enhanced Yeast Strains
Follow Distilleries’ Desires
for New & Unique Profiles
By: Gerald Dlubala
S ince its founding in 2013, Seattle-based Manager with a focus in fermentation for distilling
for Fermentis, experts in the fermented beverages
Copperworks Distilling Company devel-
oped an award-winning portfolio of The
industry.
world of yeast strains is large, diverse
and ever-changing. Used in commonly recognized “If it converts starch into sugar, any yeast can the-
applications, including baking, brewing, wine oretically be used to make a wash that can become
production, plant care, cosmetics and dedicated distillable alcohol. Variations in yeast strains pro-
spirits production, the strains can contain similar duce varied metabolic byproducts that translate
attributes. The differences come in how they react into different congeners in the fermentation and
under varying conditions and temperatures, and final spirit post-maturation. Some distillers are try-
those are both noticeable and noteworthy. ing different individual or combinations of yeasts,
including Belgian ale yeasts, traditional American
Experimentation and Exploration ale yeasts, or even Champagne yeasts to ferment
Contribute to New and Enhanced Choices their mashes. Individual fermentations can be
distilled as a blend or be distilled individually and
“These days, craft distillers are experimenting blended later. When you consider how these then
with virtually everything to provide differentiation respond to different process conditions, tempera-
in their spirit, and that means with yeast strains, ture conditions, the initial sugar concentration,
too,” said Denise Jones, Technical Sales Support inoculation rates, nutrition values and more, either
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