8x10mm Match Wafters

£4.99

Overview

We are delighted to offer you our premium range of match wafters. Our team has dedicated extensive effort behind the scenes to carefully formulate each flavour enhancer and feed stimulant liquid pack, ensuring exceptional quality and performance.

Our in-house flavour enhancers are meticulously crafted using a blend of food-grade and feed-safe ingredients, including oleoresins, essential oils, premium liquid hydrolysates, sweeteners, NHDC sweetener, and our proprietary soluble amino acid stimulant. All our flavours are designed based on taste rather than aroma. Flavour formulations based on scent are created with entirely different chemical compounds, but our focus has always been on delivering flavours that taste pleasant rather than simply smell strong. This is a personal preference, and we stand by our approach.

Moreover, we only produce flavours that are feed-safe. All our products can be included safely in animal feed (free offerings). Our flavour house adhere’s strictly to regulatory standards, which does require removing certain chemicals from time to time, these chemicals are removed from the food & feed register for a reason. We follow the experts guidance and prioritise safety for both humans and aquatic life.

Our hook baits undergo a proprietary, in-house, three-stage, high-pressure vacuum infusion process. We believe this method is the only way to deeply infuse liquids into every core of each bait:

First stage: Infusion with our in-house amino acid feed stimulant
Second stage: Infusion with our mixed sweeteners and betaine anhydrous liquid
Third stage: Infusion with our premium-grade flavour enhancers

These baits are designed to release food signals through the liquid foods and stimulants for an extended period, thanks to our high-quality formulations, as well as trigger a pH shift signal from one of our infused liquids.

We also offer our in-house 30ml flavour enhancers, ideal for boosting all types of baits.

Product Highlights:

8x10mm wafters
Three-stage high-pressure vacuum infusion process
Contains our proprietary 100% soluble, highly attractive amino acid feed stimulant
Induces a pH shift for additional attraction
Fully infused to the core with premium-grade flavour enhancers (more info here)
High attract with prolonged leakage effects
Slight surface dusting from liquid formulations on some wafters
Not your average match wafter; crafted through an intensive infusion process from start to finish
Rugged, rubbery texture suitable for banding or spiking
Approximate weight: 40g (~140 baits per pot)

Flavour Enhancers

We are pleased to offer our in-house flavour enhancers in 30ml bottles equipped with a spray lid. These products are not your typical flavours; they have been meticulously formulated using a diverse range of food-grade and feed-safe ingredients, including oleoresins, essential oils, premium liquid hydrolysates, NHDC sweetener, and our proprietary soluble amino acid stimulant. This results in premium, highly attractive flavour enhancers designed to deliver optimal performance.

All our flavours are focused on taste rather than aroma. Unlike formulations based solely on scent—created with completely different chemical compounds—our priority is crafting flavours that taste pleasant and authentic. While preferences vary, this approach reflects our commitment to delivering safe effective products.

In addition, we exclusively offer flavours that are feed-safe, ensuring their suitability for inclusion in animal feeds and other applications. Our flavour house adhere’s strictly to regulatory standards, which does require removing certain chemicals from time to time, these chemicals are removed from the food & feed register for a reason. We follow the experts guidance and prioritise safety for both humans and aquatic life.

These versatile flavour enhancers can be applied across a wide range of uses, including:

Enhancing our in-house range of hookbaits
Incorporating into ground baits and method mixes
Flavouring liquids and dyes
Adding to various baits or hookbaits
Flavouring pellets
Flavouring liquids and glugs

All our concentrated flavours are manufactured to the highest grade and quality standards available on the market. As with all concentrated liquids, proper handling—including use in well-ventilated areas and wearing safety glasses—is essential for safety.

Meaty Liver, Fishmeal & Yeast Groundbait

Rated 5.00 out of 5

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Over the last few years, we have worked tremendously hard sourcing only the highest quality ingredients, liquids, and additives available from all over the globe. Many of our new products are now exclusive to AA Baits, which allows us to formulate and offer the very best, premium quality in-house mixes, available on the market. That being said, we do keep a handful of specially sourced products close to our chest, making our mixes stand out from the rest 😉. In order for all our customers to receive a premium mix at a very fair price, we have always supplied direct. Cutting out the middle man allows us to operate using all our finest ingredients and stimulants. This also allows our finest products to be used at optimal levels.

Meaty liver, fishmeal & yeast groundbait has been formulated with a blend of ingredients and fishmeal’s that bind well. It has been designed to hold together allowing it to reach the bottom of the lake bed before it starts to break. This highly attractive mix contains feed stimulants at desirable levels along with a high oil and protein content in the meaty products, Which leak of well into your swim. Can be balled, cupped, used in method feeder, used as a stick mix or as a paste.

Contains

Tuna meal
Meat Products
In house blend of milk proteins
In house blend of premium Chicken liver powder
Premium beef liver powder
Brocacel yeast
Turmeric
Betaine
Newly sourced feed stimulants

Also

High in protein
Rich in valuable food source
Great for F1’s, carp, bream, tench, barbel
Packed with attraction & feed stimulants
Packed with amino acids

Cost per kg

1kg – £4.60/kg
5kg – £3.60/kg
20kg – £3.00/kg
60kg – £2.66/kg

Tips

Remember our sweet whey powder can be used to add binding to any mix. Start by adding 5% – 50g per kg mix, you can then adjust accordingly. Adding more will increase the binding, vice versa adding less will decrease the break down time. This is to be added to the dry mix, then mixed very well before wetting.
We recommend slowly adding water/liquid additives to any mix, be careful not to add too much water. A nice fluffy texture that still breaks down is ideal. Too much water can make a mix go hard. More water can always be added if required, but it can’t be removed.
1L pump spray bottle is ideal for wetting mixes, also great for mixing liquid additives with water before wetting mix.
Once desired texture is achieved keep in an air tight bucket/container, this helps stop it from drying out.

Particle Preserve Liquid

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We have formulated a particle preserve liquid for those who want to turn their fresh particle into shelf life. As well as preserving the particle it is also packed with wide variety of trace minerals. It will take roughly 2L to cover 5kg of particle. We recommend completely submerging your particle and using an air tight container.

Ultimate Creamy Nut Stick & Bag Mix

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Over the last few years, we have worked tremendously hard sourcing only the highest quality ingredients, liquids, and additives available from all over the globe. Many of our new products are now exclusive to AA Baits, which allows us to formulate and offer the very best, premium quality in-house mixes, available on the market. That being said, we do keep a handful of specially sourced products close to our chest, making our mixes stand out from the rest 😉. In order for all our customers to receive a premium mix at a very fair price, we have always supplied direct. Cutting out the middle man allows us to operate using all our finest ingredients and stimulants. This also allows our finest products to be used at optimal levels.

These premium grade stick & bag mixes have been formulated with the highest quality ingredients and additives available. This mix has been crammed with a variety of mixed nuts, roasted peanut meal & soluble peanut protein flour adding instant attraction, if this isn’t enough we have also added a variety of premium grade yeast powders.We have also incorporated some semi buoyant ingredients allowing the mix to leave a trail of attraction through the water column, along with some of our in-house mini ultra mix pellet which offers a whopping 9 different pellets all with different break down times, keeping the fish grubbing around. Our new bait boost powder is also incorporated offering fantastic nutrition, attraction & powerful antioxidant properties. This isn’t your usual mix.

Contains

Mixed nut meals
Roasted peanut meal
High % of peanut protein
In-house blend of yeast products
In-house blend of spices
In house bait boost powder (View Here)
In house blend of high end milk proteins
Ground pellet powder
Newly sourced feed stimulants
Betaine
Kermaine HD Powder
In-house blend of sweeteners & enhancers
Himalayan rock salt
Crushed hemp seed
Mini ultra mix pellets
& more ( over 25 ingredients included)

Cost per kg

1kg – £7.49/kg
5kg – £6.49/kg
20kg – £5.25/kg

Liquid Dyes (Highly Concentrated)

We are now happy to offer a selection of highly concentrated liquid dyes. Great for using with our cloudy liquid, all types of hook baits, dead baits and so on. We now also offer 30ml concentred flavour booster/samples allowing you to create your own desired attractive favoured dye. These can also be diluted with water (made weaker) due to being highly concentrated.

Available in 100ml squeezy bottles with twist lid, 1L jerry cans & 5L jerry cans.

Fluoro Red Bait Dye (Hi-Vis)

This powerful hi-viz red fluorescent colour is perfect for creating hi-viz hook baits. This dye is a non-soluble powder so provides a much longer lasting colour once in the water.

Recommended inclusion amount is up to 40g per 1kg pop up mix.

Please note: This is the recommended starting amount. You can add less for a more washed out colour or add more for a brighter/darker colour. Also note you can only make mixes darker with colourants (Dark base mixes/ingredients will not turn into a lighter colour), you may have to remove dark ingredients from your mix to achieve your required colour.

All our powdered colours are of the highest quality/grade available on the market.

This Dye is not for fish consumption and should only be used to produce hookbaits which will not be digested.

BetaCel-Yeast® (Premium)

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BetaCel Yeast® – Premium Deactivated Brewers’ Yeast Powder

Name: 15mm Pop ups
SKU: 005913
Price: 7.07 GBP
Availability: InStock

NEW & IMPROVED – Higher Protein, Premium Brewing Heritage & Better Value

BetaCel Yeast® is our new premium-quality deactivated brewers’ yeast powder, produced from 100% pure Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Sourced from a global leading producer of yeast powders and extracts, BetaCel Yeast® is derived from genuine traditional brewing using malted barley and hops, providing an excellent nutritional profile and valuable naturally occurring brewing compounds.

Following our own comparative testing against our long-established Brocacel® Yeast, BetaCel Yeast® came out on top, offering a higher measured protein content, a more pleasant overall taste in our own comparisons, distinctive brewing-derived characteristics and a cost saving for our customers.

Why Have We Introduced BetaCel Yeast®?

Brocacel® has always been a very good-quality yeast ingredient, and one we have been happy to supply for many years. However, at AA Baits, we are constantly looking for ways to improve the quality and value of the ingredients we offer.

Following comparative laboratory testing, we received the following protein results:

Brocacel® Yeast – 40.9% crude protein
BetaCel Yeast® – 45.8% crude protein

These are the actual results returned from the samples tested. As with any natural ingredient, nutritional values can vary slightly between production batches.

This means BetaCel Yeast® demonstrated approximately 12% more protein than Brocacel® in our comparative testing.

Alongside the higher protein result, BetaCel Yeast® offers a cost saving, making it an exciting addition to our range.

Understanding the Bitterness Levels – Why Is This Important?

One of the interesting findings from our comparative laboratory testing was the difference in measured bitterness levels between the two yeast products.

Our results showed:

Brocacel® Yeast – 20 BU/100g dry matter
BetaCel Yeast® – 100 BU/100g dry matter

This means BetaCel Yeast® recorded five times the measured bitterness of Brocacel® in our laboratory analysis.

However, it’s important to understand what these figures actually mean, particularly when it comes to taste, palatability and bait quality.

At AA Baits, we fully appreciate that taste and palatability are extremely important when developing high-quality fishing baits. The last thing we want is to introduce an ingredient that negatively affects the taste or acceptance of our formulations.

For this reason, we carried out our own direct taste comparisons between Brocacel® and BetaCel Yeast®.

Despite the difference in laboratory bitterness readings, we were unable to detect any noticeable additional bitterness in BetaCel Yeast®. In fact, we found BetaCel Yeast® to have a much more pleasant initial taste and aftertaste, making it our preferred product in our own side-by-side comparisons. We also tested other yeast powders that recorded zero measurable bitterness and had not been produced through traditional brewing using malted barley and hops. Despite having no measurable bitterness, we found both their initial taste and lingering aftertaste to be extremely unpleasant.

This highlights an important distinction: a laboratory bitterness measurement does not necessarily translate directly into how bitter an ingredient tastes, particularly when it is incorporated at relatively low inclusion levels within a complete bait formulation.

So Why Have We Highlighted the Bitterness Reading?

The reason we’ve included this information isn’t because we believe a more bitter bait is necessarily better. Instead, we consider it an interesting analytical characteristic that helps us understand the brewing origin and composition of the yeast.

BetaCel Yeast® originates from genuine traditional brewing using malted barley and hops, rather than simply being yeast grown on alternative fermentation substrates.

During the brewing process, hops contribute naturally occurring bitter compounds, including humulone (alpha acid), lupulone (beta acid) and related substances.

The bitterness level of brewery-derived yeast can be influenced by the quantity, variety and bittering intensity of the hops used, alongside the brewing and production processes themselves.

The higher bitterness reading in BetaCel Yeast® is consistent with its origins in a hop-rich brewing process and reflects an interesting difference in the brewing-derived characteristics of the two yeast products.

These hop-derived compounds are also of particular interest because of their recognised antioxidant and bacteriostatic properties under certain conditions.

Although the bitterness reading alone cannot establish the exact concentrations of these compounds or determine the quality of the original beer, it provides another useful insight into the characteristics of BetaCel Yeast® and its genuine brewing heritage.

What Does This Mean for Bait Makers?

Ultimately, what matters to us is the overall quality, nutritional value, taste and suitability of an ingredient, rather than any single laboratory figure.

Our own taste testing found BetaCel Yeast® to have a more pleasant overall taste than Brocacel®, with no noticeable increase in bitterness, despite its higher analytical reading.

It’s also worth remembering that brewers’ yeast is normally used as just one component of a complete bait formulation. Its contribution to the finished bait will depend on the inclusion rate and the other ingredients used.

For us, the bitterness measurement is simply another piece of analytical information that complements the more important advantages we have identified:

Higher Protein Content – 45.8% crude protein compared with 40.9% for Brocacel® in our comparative testing.
Excellent Taste Profile – Preferred in our own side-by-side taste comparisons, with no noticeable additional bitterness.
Genuine Brewery Origin – Derived from traditional brewing using malted barley and hops.
Naturally Occurring Nutrients – Including MOS, beta-glucans, nucleotides, amino acids, vitamins and minerals.
Better Value for Money – Offering a cost saving compared with Brocacel®.

Genuine Brewery-Derived Yeast – Why the Source Matters

Not all yeast powders are produced in the same way, and we believe the origin of a yeast ingredient is just as important as its nutritional specification.

BetaCel Yeast® is sourced from genuine traditional brewing using malted barley and hops, rather than simply being yeast grown on an alternative fermentation substrate.

During the brewing process, the yeast comes into contact with naturally occurring compounds from both the malted barley and hops, contributing to its distinctive composition.

This can include valuable hop-derived bitter compounds alongside the nutritional components naturally present in the yeast itself.

Some yeast powders are produced using alternative fermentation substrates and different manufacturing processes. These can still be useful ingredients, but their composition may differ significantly from genuine brewery-derived yeast.

For this reason, we believe it is important to understand not just the protein content of a yeast powder, but also where it comes from, how it is produced and what naturally occurring compounds it contains.

Why Bitterness and Gluten Are Interesting Indicators

Two particularly interesting characteristics when assessing brewery-derived yeast are its measured bitterness and the presence of gluten.

Traditional brewing commonly uses malted barley, which naturally contains gluten-related proteins, while hops contribute characteristic bitter compounds.

When both are detected in a brewers’ yeast powder, they can provide useful supporting evidence of its brewing origin.

However, neither measurement alone proves how a yeast has been produced, which is why manufacturer traceability and confirmation of the production process are equally important.

In the case of BetaCel Yeast®, we have confirmation that the product originates from traditional brewing using malted barley and hops.

Combined with its measured bitterness, this gives us further confidence in the origin and characteristics of the ingredient we are supplying.

Naturally Rich in Valuable Yeast Nutrients

BetaCel Yeast® contains a range of naturally occurring nutritional components that make deactivated brewers’ yeast a valuable ingredient in modern bait formulations.

These include:

MOS (Mannan Oligosaccharides) – Naturally occurring yeast cell wall components valued for their prebiotic properties.
Beta-Glucans – Yeast cell wall polysaccharides recognised for their potential role in supporting normal immune function.
Nucleotides – Important nutritional compounds involved in cellular activity, growth and tissue development.
Amino Acids – Valuable protein-building components that contribute to the nutritional profile of a bait.
B Vitamins – Naturally occurring vitamins involved in metabolism and nutrient utilisation.
Minerals & Trace Elements – Including phosphorus, iron, zinc and other essential micronutrients.
Hop-Derived Compounds – Including humulone, lupulone and related bitter substances associated with the brewing process.

Premium Quality & Specialist Production

BetaCel Yeast® is manufactured by a global leading producer of yeast powders and extracts, using specialist production and processing technology.

The combination of genuine brewery-derived raw material, carefully controlled processing and an excellent nutritional specification makes BetaCel Yeast® a premium ingredient for use in boilies, groundbaits, stick mixes and other specialist fishing bait formulations.

Key Benefits of BetaCel Yeast®

100% pure deactivated brewers’ yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae).
Derived from genuine traditional brewing using malted barley and hops.
45.8% crude protein in our comparative testing.
Approximately 12% higher measured protein content than Brocacel® Yeast.
Five times the measured bitterness of Brocacel® Yeast, with no noticeable additional bitterness in our own taste comparisons.
Pleasant overall taste profile, preferred in our own side-by-side testing.
Contains naturally occurring MOS, beta-glucans and nucleotides.
Provides amino acids, B vitamins, minerals and trace elements.
Contains valuable hop-derived bitter compounds, including humulone and lupulone.
Produced using specialist manufacturing technology.
Excellent nutritional addition to a wide range of bait formulations.
Better value for money compared with Brocacel® Yeast.

The AA Baits Commitment to Quality

At AA Baits, we’re constantly striving to source the very best quality ingredients, not only to offer our customers premium products at competitive prices, but also to ensure that we use only the finest raw materials in our own in-house bait formulations and boilie production.

Our introduction of BetaCel Yeast® isn’t because Brocacel® is a poor-quality product — far from it. Brocacel® has always been an excellent yeast ingredient and one that many of our customers have used successfully for years.

For the time being, we will continue to offer both Brocacel® and BetaCel Yeast®, allowing customers to choose whichever product best suits their requirements.

However, following our comparative testing, we believe BetaCel Yeast® represents an exciting step forward.

With its higher measured protein content, excellent taste profile, genuine brewery-derived origin, valuable naturally occurring nutrients and more competitive price, we can see BetaCel Yeast® becoming our leading brewers’ yeast ingredient and the preferred choice for many bait makers.

BetaCel Yeast® – Genuine Brewery-Derived Quality, Higher Protein, Excellent Taste & Better Value.

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