I am planning to start an apple pie Cyser this weekend. The recipe is as follows
10# honey
2 gallons apple cider
Water to top up to 5 gallons
3 cinnamon sticks
5 cloves
2 whole nutmeg ground
Yeast energizer
Yeast nutrient
Lalvin k1v-1116 yeast
My questions are:
1) What is the best time and dosage for the yeast nutrient and energizer. It's DAP. I want to do a step dosing.
2) my local homebrew shop only had the lavlin 1116 and 1118 for wine yeasts. Is this a good strain for mead?
3) not sure on the ppg of cider. From what I found from searches I thought around 7. With this my brew calc is showing an OG of 1.103. Does this sound correct and is this around correct for a semi sweet? Yeast strain is showing a tolerance of 18% alc. if my initial reading didn't come that high was going to boost with brown sugar.
4) what is acid blend and should I use it?
5) to add sulfites or no?
Any further comments or suggestions would be awesome.
Thank you,
10# honey
2 gallons apple cider
Water to top up to 5 gallons
3 cinnamon sticks
5 cloves
2 whole nutmeg ground
Yeast energizer
Yeast nutrient
Lalvin k1v-1116 yeast
My questions are:
1) What is the best time and dosage for the yeast nutrient and energizer. It's DAP. I want to do a step dosing.
2) my local homebrew shop only had the lavlin 1116 and 1118 for wine yeasts. Is this a good strain for mead?
3) not sure on the ppg of cider. From what I found from searches I thought around 7. With this my brew calc is showing an OG of 1.103. Does this sound correct and is this around correct for a semi sweet? Yeast strain is showing a tolerance of 18% alc. if my initial reading didn't come that high was going to boost with brown sugar.
4) what is acid blend and should I use it?
5) to add sulfites or no?
Any further comments or suggestions would be awesome.
Thank you,
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