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Recommended Yeast for Fermenting Honey
Just as the title says, looking for a recommendation on a yeast strain for a honey distillate.
Racking my brain over this one. If you don’t want to share what strains you use successfully, please share the ones that didn’t work well.
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lalvin D-47 is what I use when making a dry mead
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Silk no I have not, sorry. But for a straight forward dry mead that is what I use. You could also use EC-1118 but for mead making you need to get some age on it post fermentation. Not sure which would work best for a distillate. Those would be my recommendations for fermenting honey. If you were adding fruit (melomel style) I would use K1-V1116 to accentuate more of the fruit. but again never distilled it. I would imagine you would want a good mead to make good honey liquor.
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don’t forget honey fermentation needs a good supply of nitrogen, more then normal.
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Yeah I’ve done some trials and have used the usual suspects, D-47, EC-1118, DV-10. There is great information from the mead community, especially around nutrients, which is fantastic.
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Should be room there now…
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ec-1118 +DAP +fermaid K will make a pretty nice mead. Ive not ever distilled it as the mead was so tasty on its own. Let us know how it goes for you.
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Hi all,
This is a great topic. I am also looking to make a small batch spirit from honey and am wondering about how long it’s taking for your honey-based meads to ferment?
Thanks!
Brock
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I ran 4 weeks at 55-60f, using a yeast that can comfortably ferment that cold.
Incredible aroma preservation.
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