How Do You Make Your Co2 Mixtures?

[karlp]

From what I've read, wine / sparkling wine yeast is more tollerant to alchol, so since we are making alchohol, would be more suitable and can be re-used for subesquent batches. The addition of bicarbonate of soda does help to stabilise the CO2 production with bread yeast, but can apparently be detremental to wine yeast.

I based my choice on an experiment that someone ran with different yeast types. The exact numbers are not significant, but the comparison is of interest:

For the purposes of the test, the mixes all had 1 cup of sugar and 1/4 teaspoon of yeast.

The bread yeast was in the test, the worst performer, although it is the cheapest and most readily available.

Obviously this isn't conclusive proof and lots of people use bread yeast successfully.

Cheers

Karl.

 

[macgyver]

Tesco value for everything and you only spend a max of 50p a week. Although I wish the yeast would last longer you use 1/4 of a tsp and then the packet has to be thrown out.

I am using 2x the recipe for my 30 gallon because of my rubbish diffuser.

You can buy yeast in sachets around here - much handier

 

[shrimply]

You can buy yeast in sachets around here - much handier

Yeah I meant that the sachets. There is far more than a 1/4 of a tsp of yeast in them but after 2 days tey are useless.

 

[dgwebster]

not completely useless - you can use the remainder to make your own pizza dough