Servomyces Yeast Nutrient

[jgriffin]

Anyone here had any experience with, or even folk lore knowledge of Servomyces? From the products descrrption, it sounds like a godsend, but i can't seem to find anyone in oz that sells it.

Here's some stuff i did find
http://www.mbaa.com/meeting/2003/abstracts/P-5.html
http://www.yeastbank.com/features/servomyces_results.htm
http://www.whitelabs.com/servomyces_pr.html

 

[Hoops]

U$5-U$6 a pack. Woner how much a pack will do?

 

[jgriffin]

Apparently "$0.24 to $0.30 per keg" US.

From what i've found out though, it's just healthy yeast. You throw it into the boil toget the nutrients out - this is designed apparently to get around those german beer laws, so they can add zinc for the yeasties.

G Sanders reckons a pack of autolyzed yeast is just as good.