Wyeast Pitching amount

[FrankTG]

Hi -

I am fermenting 3 gallons of cider in two 6 gallon carboys. I racked the cider from each carboy off the sediment made from the 24 hrs of sitting with the pectic enzyme.

I just pitched the yeast into both. I am using different yeast for each one so that I will be able to see what the difference is between them.

The back of the Wyeast pack says it is good for 6 gallons. It is a 125 g pack. For each carboy I put 80 g of yeast in, a bit more than half the pack per 3 gallons. I also added Wyeast nutrient.

Is this OK, or should I put the whole pack in regardless of amount of cider?

Many thanks!

Frank

 

[MarkKF]

Why 3 gal. in TWO 6 gal. Carboys? I do 5 gal. in ONE 6 gal. I've used one packet for TWO 1 gal. batches up to ONE 5.5 gal. batch.

 

[Yooper]

Use the whole package- I think their instructions somewhere say something like "good for 1-6 gallons" or something. Since you can't keep it once you opened it, might as well use it all.

 

[madscientist451]

I agree with Yooper, once the liquid yeast package is opened, just use the whole thing.
When its done, you can rack the cider off the lees, and dump more cider right in the same carboy if you want to run another batch.

 

[FrankTG]

Why 3 gal. in TWO 6 gal. Carboys? I do 5 gal. in ONE 6 gal. I've used one packet for TWO 1 gal. batches up to ONE 5.5 gal. batch.

Hi -

I did this as I wanted to test out the end results of using different types of yeast. I only had 6 gallons of juice.

FG

 

[FrankTG]

Use the whole package- I think their instructions somewhere say something like "good for 1-6 gallons" or something. Since you can't keep it once you opened it, might as well use it all.

Thanks!

I pitched in the rest of the pack. When I checked the carboys this morning, there is a pretty significant layer of lees at the bottom already and there is no bubbling.

I have read that most of the time you should just wait and see. But, is this normal? A foam layer sort of seems to be forming, but very minor.

What I have done to the carboys so far:

1. 1 tablet of campden per gallon, so 3 tabs each
2. 1/4 tsp of pectic enzyme
3. waited ~36hrs
4. racked the cider off of the mud at the bottome from the pectic enzyme
5. took my SG reading (1.050 for both) and took PH test, 3.6 for both
6. cleaned the carboys with star san and then put the juice back into them
7. pitched the yeast - Wyeast starter packs, followed directions on back