Alcohol Distillation

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Welcome! Here you’ll find alcohol based essences, activated carbon, turbo yeast for home distillers, liquor and liqueur essences, candy shots, turbo yeasts and supplies for distilleries, home distillers and home brewers. Our goal is to produce the worlds best essences and turbo yeasts and to sell only top quality. Our assortment of essences is the world’s largest and the same top quality we sell to distilleries. You can also get the best activated carbons, Rashig rings, supplies and German glass instruments here.

We gladly share our 26 years of knowledge. Many inventions in this field (like Turbo Yeast) originate with us. Read about Turbo Yeast. Learn more than some competing turbo yeast manufacturers. Learn our new method for using activated carbon with 100-150% better results – only by knowing how and why to use the activated carbon in this new way. Learn everything about the hydrometer – with illustrations. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest news. There will be new products and interesting news in the coming years and please bookmark this page.

Gert Strand’s Original Essences and Liquor

Perhaps the world’s most frequently sold essence: over 10 million bottles sold since 1978. Click here to go directly to our menu of essences.

We also produce genuine Swedish Prestige Vodka under different Trademarks. Compared to all other Prestige Vodka brands, the taste and quality has – in our double blind tests – always been No. 1.

Swedish Country Vodka ,Citron Vodka , Apple Vodka ,Caraway Vodka ,Currant Vodka ,Pear Vodka , Mandarin Vodka.Sale to importers only. Importers wanted worldwide. We supply a quality which in tests beat almost everything – easy to demonstrate for bartenders. A test against their best vodka.

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The products you order from us are of excellent quality. We could sell products for much less by using cheap essences, far east instruments, activated carbon that does not work, and bakers yeast labeled as turbos . . . but we will not compromise on quality. We supply top quality for both amateurs and pros. In most countries you will find our prices low compared to prices in home brew shops

Sale to importers only. Importers wanted worldwide. We supply a quality which in tests beat almost everything – easy to demonstrate for bartenders. A test against their best vodka.

We will send out news and information via E-mail. If you are interested in receiving information and news from Gert Strand AB, please fill in your name and e-mail address below.

The products you order from us are of excellent quality. We could sell products for much less by using cheap essences, far east instruments, activated carbon that does not work, and bakers yeast labeled as turbos . . . but we will not compromise on quality. We supply top quality for both amateurs and pros. In most countries you will find our prices low compared to prices in home brew shops.Password for export price list pages is given only to distilleries.If you represent a distillery, please send an e-mail and ask for the password for entrance to those pages.

We supply a Distillers yeast in 15 kg boxes as well as nutrients in 30 kg boxes. Amounts given below are for fermentation from 1000 Litres and up.

Large distilleries with sophisticated automatic cooling ferment large volumes, from 50,000 Litres+. We establish what % alcohol you want to ferment up to 17% ethanol v.v. and then fermentation is temperature controlled to 25°C +/- 1°C (between 24°C and 26°C). Large fermenters (50,000Litres+) tend to have automatic temperature control systems capable of such control connected. Smaller companies, with the exception of micro breweries, typically lack these requirements or capabilities.

Use 30 Kg nutrients. Per 10,000 Litres of fermentation, the dosage ratio does not change with volume / cooling equipment or anything else. So, for 10,000 Litres, use 30 Kg (1 box).

The Yeast dosage should be 15 kg for 10,000 Litre fermentation for maximum speed (2 days). The yeast dosage should be reduced where the cooling system cannot keep the liquid temperature below 30°C. But the minimum yeast dosage must be 2 kg for 10,000 Litres (8-10 days) – below this level the fermentation will stop, even if the correct liquid temperatures have been maintained.

Also, if you are in a warm enviroment you may run into problems. Even using only 2 kg / 10,000 Litres, you will still require a good cooling system to keep the liquid temperature below 30 C.
Where cooling is not available at all, the key is to use the minimum yeast dosage of 2 kg / 10,000 Litres – if there is still a temperature problem, then the sugar will have to be drastically reduced – even down as low as to produce 8 – 9% ethanol. As you can see, cooling is very important if you desire both speed and strength – or a wash so pure that you can flavour it and drink it – see below.