Additive kit with yeast and yeast nutrients for making your own mead at home.
Yeast nutrients creates the right conditions for an optimized fermentation process while shortening the needed fermentation time.
This kit contains nutrients for up to 150 liters of mead, but the yeast is intended for 20 to 30 liters of mead.
This kit includes:
2 packages of dry yeast (pick your choice, read more below)
50 g
Fermaid K100 g
DAPYeast characteristics:
Lalvin D47 - Good allround yeast for mead, smooth and rounded mouthfeel with slight fruitiness
Lalvin Bourgovin RC212 - Suitable for mead flavoured with fruit or berries, and provides a nice rounded character
Lalvin EC-1118 - Champagne yeast that can handle high gravity meads, provides a slightly fruity character with slight tartness
Mangrove Jack's M05 - Meads fermented with this strain will finish dry and be relatively full-bodied with good complexity and a fresh, floral character
We recommend that the yeast nutrients are added at 3-4 different occasions during the first week of fermentation, following a schedule of so called Staggered Nutrient Additions. Recommended dosing:
DAP ca 0,2 grams per liter
Fermaid K ca 0,5 grams per liter
Read more
instructions here