Alcohol in 24 hours 

Alcotec 24 hour turbo yeast will ferment a normal sugar/water wash up to 14% alcohol in 24 hours under normal circumstances. The fermentation looks like nothing you have ever seen before, it is more of an explosion, which is why we recomment not to use an airlock (in case something obstructs it).

Temperature range

It is critical that you keep the stated temperature range, best with ambient temperature around 25 C. It is actually the liquid temperature that counts, if you can control it, aim for 25C constant to get the best result.

Alcohol in 48 hours - or 5 days?

TheAlcotec 48 turboyeast is a "dual recipe" yeast. You can choose wheter to produce moderate alcohol (14%) in 48 hours, or high alcohol (20%) in 5 days.

Two turbo yeast recipes

You can choose whether to go for 14% (fast) or 20% (in 5 days) simply by adding different amounts of sugar. The standard dose of 6 kgs of plain sugar into 25 litres total will give you the 14% recipe. If you instead go for 8 kgs of sugar the turbo yeast will automatically go for 20% in 5 days.

Temperature tolerance

This turbo yeast is considerably more tolerant to high temperatures than the Alcotec 24, or any older recipe such as the Alcotec 6 or Alcotec 8. The optimum is still ambient (and liquid) temperature around 25 C, but it is no disaster if the ambient temperature shoots a bit over 30 C.