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Two batches of cider into the primaries, the first with 5 lbs of honey, lavlin 71B 1122yeast in 2.5 gallons of juice from the apples on the property (SG 1.050 prior to honey) and 5 gallons of macintosh with Nottingham yeast, no added sugar and SG of 1.048 to start. Plum wine I secondaries and...

I have another 3 kg of plums in the freezer and will order yeast specific for mead to ferment those......having said that, which yeast do you think would be best?

Sorry to have left out details. I went with wild fermentation as a lark. The yeast that I had on hand was Coopers Ale and Lavlin K1V1116 whic I used for the plum wine. i used 1.5 kg of plums per gallon and did add pectinace and yeast nutrient. As for the processing of the plums, pitted and...

So, I have had the wonderful luck of 30lbs of ripe plums that are available, so what else could I do, I had enough preserves from last year. I have 5 gallons of plum wine in the first fermentation, but had several pounds of honey laying around form a bee keeper friend and so I decided on plum...