This aggressive mixture is engineered to ferment simple sugar washes to very high alcohol by volume, often hitting 14 to 20 percent in just a few days. Distillers and makers of neutral spirits use it because the added nitrogen, vitamins, and minerals push the yeast to work at maximum speed without stalling. The tradeoff is that the stressed fermentation often produces harsh fusel alcohols and off-flavors that require heavy distillation or carbon filtering to remove.
Heard on the job
The sugar wash with the turbo yeast is already bubbling like crazy, it should hit 18 percent by Friday.