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Eating and Drinking => Homebrew => Topic started by: LivvyW on June 25, 2010, 19:56

Title: Yeast nutrient
Post by: LivvyW on June 25, 2010, 19:56

My first foray into homemade wine, i have bought Vit B1 as a yeast nutrient. The tablets are 100mg. Am i right to think only 3 or 5mg is needed per gallon?

Also the only tablets i could find are marked as yeast free, will they still feed the yeast?

Sorry if these are dafty questions.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Yeast nutrient
Post by: Cazzy on June 25, 2010, 20:25

As far as I know 3mg/gallon is fine, I don't use it myself.

I've read that lemon/orange and some marmite do the same thing and I fancy trying it out but I don't know that these and vit b1 are used instead of nutrient or as well as.

Title: Re: Yeast nutrient
Post by: SG6 on June 27, 2010, 20:30

Yeast nutrient is:
1/2 teaspoon ammonium sulphate,
1/2 teaspoon ammonium phosphate,
3mg Vit B1.

Marmite appears to be a substitute for the Vit B1 but not the others.

Couldn't you get a straight forward wine making yeast nutrient? Would make it easier.

Will say that I never normally bother if I make a fruit wine as the fruit has an assortment of things in it to start with.

Yeast free is what you want, you are adding a wine yeast so you don't want any others in there.