New Yeast Plan

If you are tired of battling with H2S (rotten egg, burn rubber) problems, check out these no-H2S yeast choices from Renaissance. One of them is very heat-tolerant (up to 95 degrees F). Apparently, this tech is from research done at UC Davis where they found one yeast culture (out of thousands) that produced no H2S. They effectively isolated the one attribute (enzyme) of this strain and mated it with other strains until they engineered a strain with all the properties of a highly desirable yeast, but with no-H2S attributes.

The Andante yeast looks like a winner to me and we decided to give it a try this season. It's high temp tolerant and high brix/alcohol tolerant. I can't find anything but great reviews from people using this in previous seasons.

http://www.gusmerwine.com

@4score Where can you buy it? I only see reps not stores.

Lorna Bordenave
Technical Sales

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Pricing for the 500g pack Andante is $35.00 ea./FOB Fresno.

Thank you very much!

Very cool. I did a little research and here is a site where they are giving away free 8 gram trial packets...

http://www.renaissanceyeast.com/en/challenge

Thanks JohnT, I wanted to try it but I didn't want to buy that much.
Free Trial

I may give this a shot. Thanks!

So much for the Non-GMO label!

It'd be nice to buy a small pack to try before one can buy the 500gr pack

geek said:

It'd be nice to buy a small pack to try before one can buy the 500gr pack

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You didn't read the whole thread, did you?

Boatboy24 said:

You didn't read the whole thread, did you?

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I was looking at this from my phone and missed John's post...

OK...it's game time! I have 2000 pounds of Syrah crushed into two bins. It sat overnight and was ready for yeast this morning. This Andante is awesome so far. In my starter, it went absolutely nuts within minutes of adding the yeast. Turn up your volume.

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I received my sample last week. It is sitting, waiting for use in my fridge.

I also got 2 different samples in the mail

I requested the free 8 gram sample. We shall see!

geek said:

It'd be nice to buy a small pack to try before one can buy the 500gr pack

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Varis, they're offering a free trial packet. I've requested mine after mentioning WMT as where I got clued in about the free trial offer.

Very impressed with this yeast. Just finished pressing Grenache and Syrah and the yeast was vigorous. Got the job done with ZERO worries about H2S or high ferm temps. We even started a second-run brute (20 gal) using sugar water at 25 brix then adding back the just-pressed skins. The slurry in the bucket had Andante yeast cells that SPRANG back to life and I had a full cap within a couple hours!

Bosagrape in Vancouver, Canada carries 8 gr packs.
http://ecom.bosagrape.com/product.php?productid=20580&cat=1209&page=1

One question: The Renaissance webpage states that this yeast will eat up to 30% malic acid. Has anyone experienced this?
http://www.renaissanceyeast.com/en/products/andante

I uses the Andante sample last year and really liked it. I ordered 500 grams from them for $32 including shipping. I did not have any H2S problems and MLF went along fine. I am not sure I noticed any malic acid being eaten, but I liked the yeast and am using it this year again.

For some reason, they changed the name from Andante yeast to Avante. Same product.

It worked so well for us last year with our Syrah and Grenache that we are using it again this year for our Carbernet and Tempranillo.

http://www.renaissanceyeast.com/en/index.htm