1st cyser advice needed

[alane1]

I just made my first cyser, recipe as follows;

4 gal. apple juice @ 1.050
.5 lb. brown sugar
added honey to bring o.g. to 1.080
1 pkg. safale-04

my question is safale-04 able to handle this gravity, or will I have to add a more alcohol tolerant yeast strain?

 

[Devo9]

You are looking at a yeast that can handle up to 12% ABV, and your SG being at 1.080, you should be fine to ferment dry. It'll be close to the 12%, but shouldn't go over by much if at all. Here is a thread about it:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/safale-us-05s-alcohol-tolerance-131984/

 

[alane1]

thanks for the response, other than that how does the recipe look?I would have liked to use more honey, but my wife the bee-keeper was kind of p#ssed about me using what was supossed to be christmas presents.The temptation was too great, fresh honey from the backyard.What's a guy to do?

 

[Devo9]

Looks good, it's a cyser, so it is hard to go wrong