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07-03-2018, 03:43 PM #1
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First Mead, few questions
Hopefully this is the correct area. My goal is a sweet mead, plan on a 5 gal batch and might try to add fruit flavor to part of it in secondary but that is TBD. My plan for recipe goes like this
4 gal spring water
18.4lbs of honey (or until 1st is around 1.129)
Lavlin D47 yeast (4 packs)
I plan to rehydrate yeast in spring water, then pitch into well agitated must when temperatures are within 10 degrees of each other. I used a mead calculator and it should put the final gravity around 1.025 if all goes well.
I HAVE yeast nutrient and energizer but they are LD CARLSON brand from friar tucks and I'm not sure how to use them in comparison to the sna schedule I see using fermaid k and DAP. If anyone has experience with this brand please feel free to chime in otherwise I figure the recommended dose of each split into 4 increments every 24hrs would be close? The other question would be I read D47 has a short lag phase, should I add nutrients before the 24hr mark in that case? Hopefully this isn't too hard to follow or out of format. Thank you in advance for any help/recomendations.
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07-03-2018, 07:00 PM #2
It's hard to say with generic stuff as they won't tell you whats in it. THat's why we use the other products. I suggest to never feed anything until you see it has moved out of the lag phase and into the growth phase.
7 out of 4 people have a hard time using their hydrometer!
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07-03-2018, 07:12 PM #3
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Yea that's what I figured but was hoping maybe someone had more information than me on it. If and when I do another batch I'll try to order fermaid online since it's not sold local. And thank you I'll monitor it and when I see it moving into the next stage I'll add my first dose.
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07-03-2018, 10:39 PM #47 out of 4 people have a hard time using their hydrometer!
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07-08-2018, 02:07 PM #5
Egg
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Thank you for the response. Just an update it's a little past 1/3rd sugar break already (if I did it right) so looks like it is going ok. We will see if it was enough nutrient or not going just off the recommended dosage on bottle split into 4 doses.
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