CellarScience – VELO Ale Yeast x 15g

⚡ 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.

🍹 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

One sachet is enough to treat a single 19-23L batch.

When calculating for larger batches, use at a rate of 0.5-1g per Liter. We recommend rounding up by one full sachet rather than measuring out the yeast exactly.

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).
• Use upper range for seltzers and low-nutrient wort.