Nutrients after-the-fact?

ueberbill · Post by **ueberbill** » Tue May 30, 2006 5:31 am

Hello all,

I just read the back of the yeast nutrients I purchased online and it looks like they contain no DAP whatsoever. It says Thiamin, Vitamin B, and Yeast hulls. So it looks like I've been feeding my yeast a bunch of vitamins but no nitrogen. My fermenter full of brown sugar, yeast, and 50 grams of thiamin, B, and yeast hulls (argh) has been bubbling slowly for a little over a week and still smells acceptable. My question is, once I get the DAP can I add it (I figured 50g -75g for my volume, which is about 5.5 gallons) or will this further confuse my long-suffering yeast? Should I mark this as a loss and start over? Advice appreciated.

Bill

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:35 am

I think yeast has enough with the yeast hulls to reproduce,
it's not that DAP is the only solution
If you really want to add some, I would add aprox. half of what you would normally add, It should not harm your wash, i think.

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:38 pm

is it a sugar-wash for neutral spirits?

in that case: the home-distillers in my area usually just use water, bread/bakers yeast and sugar...

heres the "basic recipe" i was told:

25l water, 6-7 kg sugar, a few packs of bakers yeast (5g each or something)

and this works.. get about 12% wash from this...