Renaissance Fresco yeast - feeding

[DaveC73]

Hi there! I finally go my hands on some Fresco yeast and am planning out my first test gallon using it. The Renaissance Yeast (RY) catalogue says Fresco is a medium YAN requirement yeast, needing 225-300 ppm YAN. That's quite a bit of Fermaid O and K since I assume the store bought juice I'm using for trials has effectively zero YAN.

Has anyone successfully used Fresco? If so, what was your feeding regimen? My juice is typically OG = 1.054, pH = 3.5-3.6 and I ferment around 60F.

Thanks!

 

[Maylar]

For cider I don't use any fancy step feeding regimen, I just front load the nutrients at pitch. I've only used the Fresco once and my notes say for a 5.5 gallon batch I added 4.3 gm. Fermaid-K and 1.7 gm. of regular DAP. Not sure where I got the numbers from. Started at about 66°F and after the lag phase dropped it to 62° for the duration. Finished at 1.006 FG which is a bit odd. Cider was very good.

 

[DaveC73]

Thanks Maylar. Yeah, maybe regimen was the wrong word to use. I was more curious about how many grams of fermaid o/k/dap people used. I'll just try doing what I always do and see how it works out. Thanks!

 

[DaveC73]

So quick update on my Fresco fermentation. This yeast has an EPIC lag time. 72 hours before this thing started to take off, but now it's happily bubbling away and smells fantastic!