Plum upchuck

I had to laugh then wonder... when adding yeast nutrients (thiamine vitamin-B complex and diammonium phosphate) to an already vigorous ferment, can it further fire up the ferment?

With 1-1/2ga buckets 2/3rds full, my plums with 71B yeast at ~69F were going very strong by day 3 without nutrients, and soon after adding nutrients I had a blowout. With 1/3rd headspace I thought I would be fine, but I'm getting an amazingly thick and airy pulp cap. Maybe that why I should be punching down more than once a day?







--SiletzSpey

The quest ion to ask yourself is why add those ingredients when the ferment was already going strong?

DoctorCAD said:

The question to ask yourself is why add those ingredients when the ferment was already going strong?

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I regularly have fermentation's go for weeks, and I figure any nutrient deficiencies will show up later, so I head that off by adding nutrient early.

I'm open to suggestions otherwise.

--SiletzSpey