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I am trying to recreate my grandpa's dandelion wine recipe, for which he used bread yeast, but I don't want to bother with bread yeast's unpredictable performance and poor flocculation. Its a real pain to work with...
What wine yeast (or mead yeast??) would be a good replacement? This is a high sugar recipe that finished sweet, meaning the bread yeast crapped out before it could finish. I know a modern recipe would probably call for enough sugar to get to the ABV that you want, then backsweeten as desired, but I want to change as little as possible. I guess I am looking for similar alcohol tolerance to bread yeast.
Recipe for reference:
Dandelion Wine - 2 Gallons
4 qt Blossoms
8 qt boiling water
1/2 cake (moist) Fleischmans Yeast
2 lbs seedless raisins
6 lbs sugar
2 lemons
2 oranges
Scald blossoms with the boiling water abd let stand for 12 hours. Strain and add fruit chopped up. Add sugar and yeast which has been dissolved in 1 cup of warm water. Stir every day (for 7 to 10 days?). Let set for 3 weeks, then strain into keg or bottles. Do not cork bottles tightly at first. Let settle and you can strain or pour into other bottles
What wine yeast (or mead yeast??) would be a good replacement? This is a high sugar recipe that finished sweet, meaning the bread yeast crapped out before it could finish. I know a modern recipe would probably call for enough sugar to get to the ABV that you want, then backsweeten as desired, but I want to change as little as possible. I guess I am looking for similar alcohol tolerance to bread yeast.
Recipe for reference:
Dandelion Wine - 2 Gallons
4 qt Blossoms
8 qt boiling water
1/2 cake (moist) Fleischmans Yeast
2 lbs seedless raisins
6 lbs sugar
2 lemons
2 oranges
Scald blossoms with the boiling water abd let stand for 12 hours. Strain and add fruit chopped up. Add sugar and yeast which has been dissolved in 1 cup of warm water. Stir every day (for 7 to 10 days?). Let set for 3 weeks, then strain into keg or bottles. Do not cork bottles tightly at first. Let settle and you can strain or pour into other bottles