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Amount of Dry Yeast for 1gal
How much dry champagne yeast would be used to make 1 gal (3 lbs of Honey) mead?
In brewing beer, I would use about 4g of dry yeast for a 1 gal. batch (yes, Ive made them that small before).
However much comes in one of the little packets - use the whole thing. I recommend rehydrating your yeast and adding yeast nutrient (follow the package instructions, I think it's one tablespoon) before you pitch it. 3 pounds of honey to one gallon total volume will brew you a strong, sweet mead. Those are the amounts I used when I made mead, and I got lots of compliments on it.
Good luck!
Or you could go to mrmalty.com enter the volume, gravity and the date on your yeast and get an accurate measurement for your correct pitching rate. Rehydrating your dry yeast in pre boiled and then cooled water is highly recommended as well.
andrew jensen wrote:
Or you could go to mrmalty.com enter the volume, gravity and the date on your yeast and get an accurate measurement for your correct pitching rate. Rehydrating your dry yeast in pre boiled and then cooled water is highly recommended as well.
isn't mrmalty's calculator for beer? or would it not matter between beer and mead?
Yes, you are correct. It is for beer, but giving it an OG, a volume and a date would get you a helluva a lot closer than dumping 14.5 gms of yeast into 1 gallon of mead. Unless your OG on your mead is extremely high you will still be way over pitching and off yeast flavors are surely not limited to beer. I've used it with success in combination with proper yeast nutrient additions.
Now if there were only a mead yeast calculator...Ken Schramm?
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