CellarScience® NECTAR Dry Yeast

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Description

A fun, unique yeast with a UK pedigree that emphasizes fresh malt flavor while producing fruity, citrus and floral flavors. Perfect for Pale Ales and IPA's. Like all CellarScience yeast, NECTAR is eligible for direct pitch straight into your wort. CellarScience provides 12g of yeast per sachet, which is up to 9% more than any other brand of dry yeast. Every batch of yeast is PCR tested to ensure quality. NECTAR has been selling to pro breweries for awhile but was just recently packaged down to sachets for homebrewers.

Dosage:

Use at a rate of 12 grams per 5-6 gallons of wort.

Direct Pitch or Rehydrate:

NECTAR yeast can be direct pitched with great results by sprinkling it onto the surface of the wort in your fermenter. However, proper hydration helps ensure a healthy fermentation and is especially recommended for beer with a starting gravity above 15°P (1.061 SG). To hydrate yeast, first sanitize the yeast pack and a pair of scissors. Boil tap water to sterilize and then cool to 85-95°F (29-35°C). Use 10 grams (0.35 oz) of water per gram of yeast. Sprinkle the yeast onto the water, allow the slurry to stand undisturbed for 20 minutes, and then swirl. Use small amounts of wort to adjust the temperature of the slurry to within 10°F (6°C) of the wort temp before pitching. Ferment between 64-72°F (18-22°C).

Optimum Fermentation Temp: 64-72°F
Flocculation: Medium

Cell Count: 10 billion cells per gram

Similar Strains: N/A

Gluten-free

CellarScience Yeast:
For years liquid yeast has been sold as the higher quality option but times are changing. Yes, 20 years ago dry yeast was made by bread yeast producers and the quality was not as good as liquid yeast. CellarScience is helping to flip that script with the release of five high quality dry yeasts. Cell count and viability is usually higher than commercial liquid yeast pitches, which vary from pouch to pouch and don't ship well. CellarScience yeast can be pitched directly in most batches of wort, offering significant time savings. Yeast that is quick and easy to use, high quality, and available at a reasonable cost adds up to a tremendous value. Quality yeast that doesn't "break the brink".

CellarScience Nutrients:
For high gravity ferments consider rehydrating yeast with CellarScience FermStart yeast hydration nutrient. For high gravity or low nutrient wort, feed your fermentation with CellarScience FermFed DAP Free complex yeast nutrient mix.

Documents

NECTAR Yeast Data Sheet

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This is a great yeast for a light beer I make for my wife.

Michael Todd Hutton on Jul 1, 2022

Thought Iâ€™d give this yeast a try

Eric Hook on May 28, 2022

Recommended

Everett Hall on Mar 19, 2022

Try something new

William on Mar 4, 2022

Trying something new.

Tysen Bibb on Feb 8, 2022

trying for the 1st time

Pete T on Dec 30, 2021

Trying new dry yeast options

Todd on Nov 2, 2021

New item

Mark von V on Sep 10, 2021

Try something new

George P on Aug 18, 2021

Cali is fantastic, so I have high hopes for this one.

Adam on May 13, 2021

We need more dry yeast to pick from. More variety like liquids. I live far away and with heat of travel I don't like to order liquid yeast.

Normand L on Apr 8, 2021

Trying it

Nathan R s on Feb 3, 2021

This is a great yeast for a light beer I make for my wife.

Michael Todd Hutton on Jul 1, 2022

Tried it before with great results

Thomas S M on Jun 10, 2022

Thought Iâ€™d give this yeast a try

Eric Hook on May 28, 2022

Playing with yeast

Kevin F on May 10, 2022

Recommended

Everett Hall on Mar 19, 2022

have had good results

Thomas T on Mar 12, 2022

Try something new

William on Mar 4, 2022

Was recomended in the recipe

Steven Simpkins on Mar 3, 2022

Trying something new.

Tysen Bibb on Feb 8, 2022

Fantastic yeast

Adam on Jan 26, 2022

trying for the 1st time

Pete T on Dec 30, 2021

I used it for a porter and the fermentation started in just 30 minutes and has been heavy for the last 48 hours, so I must buy more...

Kenneth S on Dec 6, 2021

Trying new dry yeast options

Todd on Nov 2, 2021

I have used it many times before. Ester profile really drives fruity hops in IPA's of all types.

Adam on Sep 30, 2021

New item

Mark von V on Sep 10, 2021

Trying new variety

Steve R on Aug 27, 2021

Try something new

George P on Aug 18, 2021

tried once on my hazy IPA, best results I've had on that beer.

Joseph A on Jun 30, 2021

Cali is fantastic, so I have high hopes for this one.

Adam on May 13, 2021

trying it in an IPA

Steve Wilson on Apr 29, 2021

We need more dry yeast to pick from. More variety like liquids. I live far away and with heat of travel I don't like to order liquid yeast.

Normand L on Apr 8, 2021

i felt like being impulsive

Edward L A on Mar 2, 2021

Trying it

Nathan R s on Feb 3, 2021

It looks interesting

Tim on Feb 2, 2021

Tried it before with great results

Thomas S M on Jun 10, 2022

Playing with yeast

Kevin F on May 10, 2022

have had good results

Thomas T on Mar 12, 2022

Was recomended in the recipe

Steven Simpkins on Mar 3, 2022

Fantastic yeast

Adam on Jan 26, 2022

I used it for a porter and the fermentation started in just 30 minutes and has been heavy for the last 48 hours, so I must buy more...

Kenneth S on Dec 6, 2021

I have used it many times before. Ester profile really drives fruity hops in IPA's of all types.

Adam on Sep 30, 2021

Trying new variety

Steve R on Aug 27, 2021

tried once on my hazy IPA, best results I've had on that beer.

Joseph A on Jun 30, 2021

trying it in an IPA

Steve Wilson on Apr 29, 2021

i felt like being impulsive

Edward L A on Mar 2, 2021

It looks interesting

Tim on Feb 2, 2021

How attenuative is the Nectar yeast? I see it says medium floc, but some yeasts don't necessarily follow attenuation with flocculation.

Jon D on Apr 25, 2021

BEST ANSWER: I left a review below before seeing your question. I've used this yeast 3 times in 3.5 bbl batches and the average attenuation between the 3 batches is 88%.

What brand name yeast is cellarscience nectar dry yeast similar too?

Robin Galeota on Apr 22, 2021

BEST ANSWER: I find it to be similar to Safale 04. I have used it on fruity pale ales with good success.

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Alfred S on Apr 22, 2021
Purchased on Feb 8, 2021

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Rated 5 out of 5

Used in an American Pale Ale with Cascade & Citra hops

I direct pitched the Cellar Science Nectar dry yeast into 5.5 gallons. My OG was a bit low (1.045) but the beer finished at 1.008 FG. Fermentation was good (I use a 5 cubic foot chest freezer with an inkbird temp controller and ferment at 68 degrees f.) and I added 14g of cascade at 10 minutes and then 14g of Citra and 7g of Cascade at zero minutes and let these steep for 15 minutes and then added another 14g Citra and 7g Cascade and steeped these for another 15 minutes. I bittered the beer with German Merkur that I bought from Morebeer - very smooth bitterness, about 6 HBUs. The only beer I've had before with the Citra has been Kona's Big Wave Golden ale. Between the yeast and the Cascade/Citra, my beer has maybe 4 or 5 times more citrus flavor and is more bitter than the Kona. This yeast is a good choice for Pale Ales and IPAs that have citrus flavor producing hops. I will use again. The beer bottled conditioned fully in 14 days and two days later I'm on to about bottle number 6. I got 52 beers out of my 5.5 gallons with the usual apx half gallon of trub. I'm happy with Cellar Science and this yeast. Next time I'll increase the Citra additions to 21g and see how that goes, if it is too much or not. The yeast ferments as solidly as Fermentis S-04 or US-05. No off flavors.

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Rated 5 out of 5

I'm constantly impressed with CellarScience dry yeasts. I used their Cali mostly through 2021 in all kinds of recipes, I'm hooked on it. This Nectar yeast will be my go to for IPAs from now on. It has a nice deep, fruity flavor that really helps hops to shine.