Mead Lovers Digest #0221

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Mead Lover's Digest #221                            Thu 07 October 1993 

 
        Forum for Discussion of Mead Brewing and Consuming 
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Contents: 
  Yeast + Nutrient = Death? (Jacob Galley) 
  Re: Mead Lover's Digest #220 (October 06, 1993) (COYOTE) 

 
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 93 10:34:07 CDT 
From: Jacob Galley <gal2@midway.uchicago.edu> 
Subject: Yeast + Nutrient = Death? 

Hi. I made a small mead this weekend, but something funny happened to 
the yeast. I hydrated it in a glass of warm water, with a half 
teaspoon of "yeast nutrient" (no specifics on the label) in the glass. 
The yeast wound up sitting there in the kitchen for at least an hour, 
because there were complications in chilling the must. I pitched it 
and waited for something to happen for about 36 hours. Since there was 
no sign of activity, I just dumped another packet of yeast straight 
into the fermentor. The mead took off a few hours later. 

So I'm wondering, did the yeast nutrient somehow kill the yeast? The 
phrase "osmotic pressure" comes back to me from high school biology. . . . 

I'm also wondering about the yeast itself. I'm using Lalvin wine yeast 
on this batch (number 77B- or 72B- something). The packet said it was 
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but I thought that was only for beer. A 
poster in the store said it was very attenuative and produced a fruity 
aroma.  

Jake. 

* What's so interdisciplinary about studying lower levels of thought process? 
                               <-- Jacob Galley * gal2@midway.uchicago.edu 

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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1993 13:16:08 -0600 (MDT) 
From: COYOTE <SLK6P@cc.usu.edu> 
Subject: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #220 (October 06, 1993) 

DOn't you guys hate this!  If you just REPLY to a MLD you end up with 
a senseless and worthless SUBJECT line.  I know it's come up before. 

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Please type in the mail address, and use a subject line!!!!!!!!! 

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for REQUESTS as is explained in the intro. 

Sorry for the bandwidth w/ lack or mead-related info. But I'm getting PO'd! 

Brew on.  JDW 

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