I suppose this question could apply byond Mead to other drink, but I'm making a mead.
When doing a staggered nutrient addition (sna) do you take all the nutrient recomened and then divide that out through several addtions? or do you add some other amount.
Right now I'm doing 5 gallons with Wyeast 4184 (sweet mead) . This is a traditional at this point with 12.7lb honey (bought by the lb and the 'guessed' at the stop point og was about 1.085@79F) about 4.5 g water (total was about 5.5 gal). Also nuetrient - nothing else. I need to add 1 cup of earl grey tea for some tanin, I plan to do that tonight.
My addtions so far were at start 5 tsp of nutrient-DAP (LDcarlson) and 2.5 tsp energizer (LDcarlson). As per instructions on bottles (1tsp/g Nutrient and .5tsp/g Energizer).
12 hours later I did an aeration and added 1 tsp of nutrient and .5 of energizer.
Total has me at +20% of recomendation.
So I guess what I'm asking is if I should put in 1tsp/gal, is that total and then put some in at each break down to 1/3rd OG? Or should I go with 1tsp/g at start and then addtional nutrient after that until the 1/3 OG? (note by 1/3rd OG I mean if OG =90 then 1/3rd is at 60)
Also if putting in fruit does this change how much nutrient is added?
When doing a staggered nutrient addition (sna) do you take all the nutrient recomened and then divide that out through several addtions? or do you add some other amount.
Right now I'm doing 5 gallons with Wyeast 4184 (sweet mead) . This is a traditional at this point with 12.7lb honey (bought by the lb and the 'guessed' at the stop point og was about 1.085@79F) about 4.5 g water (total was about 5.5 gal). Also nuetrient - nothing else. I need to add 1 cup of earl grey tea for some tanin, I plan to do that tonight.
My addtions so far were at start 5 tsp of nutrient-DAP (LDcarlson) and 2.5 tsp energizer (LDcarlson). As per instructions on bottles (1tsp/g Nutrient and .5tsp/g Energizer).
12 hours later I did an aeration and added 1 tsp of nutrient and .5 of energizer.
Total has me at +20% of recomendation.
So I guess what I'm asking is if I should put in 1tsp/gal, is that total and then put some in at each break down to 1/3rd OG? Or should I go with 1tsp/g at start and then addtional nutrient after that until the 1/3 OG? (note by 1/3rd OG I mean if OG =90 then 1/3rd is at 60)
Also if putting in fruit does this change how much nutrient is added?