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Mead Nube Nutrient & Energizer Quesiton

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MattDBrewer

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Apologies if this has been covered before. I am a fairly experienced home brewer, but just made my first mead today. I followed the beginner recipe for orange blossom mead out of the Ken Schramm book. 5 gallon batch. The recipe specifically calls for 2 tsp yeast nutrient and 1 tsp energizer. I used the LD Carlson products. The labels on the LD Carlson nutrient recommends 1 tsp PER GALLON. The energizer label calls for 1/2 tsp per gallon. Perhaps stupidly, I followed the recipe rather than the manufacturer's recommendation. Should I be concerned? If so, any recommendations for a fix? I am concerned about adding product un-sanitized. I suppose I could boil a cup of water, dissolve the missing nutrient/energizer, cool it overnight in the fridge in a sanitized pyrex with foil covering and add it in the morning. Thoughts?
Thanks,
Matt
 
Many folks add their yeast nutrient in stages, not all up front, so, yeah, it'd be fine to add more. I usually add mine up front and forget about, haven't had a problem with ferments yet, and I'm too lazy and/or busy to be mucking around figuring the 2/3rd sugar break and 1/3rd sugar break (the stages where more nutrient is typically added) ... since I don't do it, I can't really add anything on how to do it, but the info is out there....dissolving it in a small amount of boiled water might not be a bad idea (can't say) as adding it as is to fermenting must adds nucleation points and the possibility of a MEA (mead explosion accident, I believe it's affectionately known as....violent foam-over out of the carboy.....good luck
 
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