500g Brick - CellarScience - VELO Ale Yeast

⚡ VELO: The Lightning-Fast, Neutral Ale Yeast for Record Turnaround

VELO is a next-generation ale yeast meticulously isolated from a Norwegian mixed culture, curated for clean fermentation, rapid performance, and exceptional flavour neutrality. It is a lightning-fast fermenter, producing beers with a brilliantly dry, smooth finish in record time, significantly accelerating production cycles and reducing tank residency.

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🍹 Styles & Flavour Profile: Clean Canvas, Dry Finish

VELO’s flavour profile is exceptionally neutral, designed to emphasize malt and hop balance while leaving virtually no distracting ester or phenol expression, making it adaptable across a massive range of styles.

Extreme Adaptability and Neutrality

• Clean & Neutral Profile: Produces minimal ester or phenol expression, delivering a clean, flavour-neutral canvas that emphasizes malt and hop balance.
• Dry Finish: Delivers a brilliantly dry, smooth finish in record time.
• Hop-Friendly: Accentuates hop brightness in modern IPAs while maintaining a refined profile in malt-forward styles.

Ideal for Brewing

VELO is highly versatile for any brew that demands speed and a clean profile:

• Hop-Forward IPAs
• Crisp Pseudo-Lagers
• Clean Hard Seltzers
• Session Ales

🔬 Performance & Technical Specifications

VELO boasts extreme resilience and consistency, eliminating the need for tight temperature control and ensuring reliable performance in demanding brewery environments.

Fermentation & Pitching Details

• Extreme Temperature Flexibility: Ferments cleanly across a wide range of 16–34°C (60–94°F) with minimal off-flavours, eliminating the need for tight temperature control.
• Pressure-Tolerant: Capable of fermenting under pressures up to 12 PSI, ideal for closed-system or spunding fermentations.
• Flocculation: Medium to High, leading to rapid clarification post-fermentation.
• Attenuation: High attenuation range of 75–83%.
• Direct Pitching: Designed to be sprinkled directly onto the surface of your wort with no pre-oxygenation or rehydration required before pitching.

Packaging & Dosage

VELO bricks are designed to provide maximum cell count for superior pitching rates and reliable fermentation every time.

Calculation for Larger Batches

• Use at a rate of 0.5-1g per Litre (approx. 50-100 g/hL).
• Pitch 1 x 500g brick per 5-10hL / 4.3-8.5 bbl
• Use upper range for seltzers and low-nutrient wort.