bigjoe62
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i have a wyeast american ale 1056 i was wondering if it would be possible to use it for a mead or not
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I have never used ale yeast and I may be wrong but I think the tolerance is not high enough.
what I am learning is that meads usually have higher alcohol 10-17% and the ale yeast may not survive .
if I wrong one of the pros will be on soon and correct me ( I'm not a pro by any means just going on what I'm learning)
hope I lead you in the right direction
what I am learning is that meads usually have higher alcohol 10-17% and the ale yeast may not survive .
if I wrong one of the pros will be on soon and correct me ( I'm not a pro by any means just going on what I'm learning)
hope I lead you in the right direction
A mead is anything you want it to be as long as it's fermented honey.
You might not get quite the highest strength mead using 1056, but you can certainly use it.
I've made meads from 8.5-14%. Nothing says it has to be a certain ABV to be mead.
That said, use hightest's spreadsheet and figure out how much honey you're going to get to meet the alcohol maximum (generally - this stuff varies) of your 1056. Then ,if you want a sweeter mead, just add a little more honey till the FG hits a sweetness level you're into. Easier to add it in later (to taste) than try to guess now what it might do, because it might poop out early and leave you a 7% semi-sweet mead, or go all the way to 11% because you fed the yeast all the right nutrients at the right times.
For something that is somewhat lower abv - look at Homebrewer99's light lemonade mead in the recipe database.
I used about 9# of honey, and a couple cans of lemonade concentrate to backsweeten...and it was loved by everyone who tried it. Killed a keg of it in just a few weeks. Of course, when your friends are pulling growlers of it at a time, it doesn't keep very long.
You might not get quite the highest strength mead using 1056, but you can certainly use it.
I've made meads from 8.5-14%. Nothing says it has to be a certain ABV to be mead.
That said, use hightest's spreadsheet and figure out how much honey you're going to get to meet the alcohol maximum (generally - this stuff varies) of your 1056. Then ,if you want a sweeter mead, just add a little more honey till the FG hits a sweetness level you're into. Easier to add it in later (to taste) than try to guess now what it might do, because it might poop out early and leave you a 7% semi-sweet mead, or go all the way to 11% because you fed the yeast all the right nutrients at the right times.
For something that is somewhat lower abv - look at Homebrewer99's light lemonade mead in the recipe database.
I used about 9# of honey, and a couple cans of lemonade concentrate to backsweeten...and it was loved by everyone who tried it. Killed a keg of it in just a few weeks. Of course, when your friends are pulling growlers of it at a time, it doesn't keep very long.
