using DIY nutrient to brew bread yeast mead. 11%

hello everyone,
we are putting the DIY yeast nutrient through its paces today and hopefully making a simple mead that doesn't taste, well like a bread yeast brew.
i used morrisons clear honey and for some unknown reason the hydrometer reading was way off.
slight variations is normal but not by this much.
the total cost for a gallon batch is £6 for everything. ( not including hydrometer )
just because i can
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[@pipesandcigarsinfrance5342]

Nothing for 7 months, I even checked that KZbin hadn't unsubscribed me. Then two videos in two days, so happy. I ended up binge watching a load of your videos last night again....resulting in an attempt to make jam wine at midnight and a list of future project as funds allow (I too understand the Covid money issues). All the best and cheers Chris

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

hey, its was frustrating having the time but no internet to really do anything. these are very strange times indeed. well i'm happy you made a batch of wine :) i'm trying to keep alot of the brewing as cheap as possible to help with lockdown hobbies. i have a couple of videos focused on super janky cheap but hopefully tasty :)

[@pipesandcigarsinfrance5342]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap I look forward to seeing them. Take care my friend

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

@@pipesandcigarsinfrance5342 thanks, stay safe :)

[@lisacarruthers9649]

Great to have you back!!

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

hey, its good to be back and hear from you all and the brewing is fun too :)

[@xrzx8040]

Really interested to see how this goes! I once made an 8% 'mead' using Lyle's golden syrup and bread yeast. Even with backsweetening, it was still horrible. Also, great to have you back!

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Hey, it's going to be interesting either way. Around the 8% mark is where the funky flavor starts to stand out ( which I was aiming for ) 🤣 so up this high is going to really put this to the test. Thanks 👍 I've missed being about

[@Helliconia54]

our Elderberry wine used Tandaco Bakers yeast. Turned out at 14.8%ABV. No off flavours. No Bready flavours.

[@eddavanleemputten9232]

Except for JOAM I tend not to use baker’s yeast in brewing... unless it’s to cook up a batch of nutrient. Especially combined with leafy herbs in a brew (they add nitrogen) this seems to work well as a nutrient in my brews which are mostly meads. Fruit peels (apple, pear) help too. Boiling beer lees is also a good source of nutrient provided the beer isn’t too heavily hopped. I’m not a ‘wine yeast snob’, it.s just that the baker’s yeast I have access to doesn’t floculate out all that great unless I cold crash it to within an inch of its life and I have quite easy access to wine yeast so I go for wine yeast (or cider yeast, or mead yeast). In a pinch I’d use baker’s yeast rather than not being able to brew. Provided you de-gas plenty and rack several times it works pretty well. The kind I can get easily (Bruggeman) consistently ferments to 12-13%, some times even a little over that. I used it for ginger mead during the first wave of the pandemic and it made a tasty drink. I even managed to bottle carbonate. Glad to see you looking so well. Stay safe and healthy!

[@crisritter6481]

Excuse me, I cannot find any video with the results. I am new to this channel and I see your videos very interesting. Please where I can find the video with the results?

[@gerben880]

man bun looks good on you dawg

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

thanks, its just to keep it out the way. :P

[@marksmith7374]

I checked my pantry I'm getting low on the necessities... It's time to make some more turbo Applejack

[@johndoe9979]

Any update on this

[@AntoniNorman]

Allinson bread yeast & Fleischmann can hit 14% all day long and don't taste all that bad as long as you don't over pitch the yeast. Some drinks like Sima it's the preferred yeast as it makes the drink taste like cake. Its basically 50/50 dark brown sugar and white sugar, lemon juice and cinnamon sticks.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

I think we have different ideas of what tastes good but you go right ahead. As for sima it's supposed low alcohol drink

[@shcomptech]

It will be interesting to find out how it tastes with two and a half sachets of bread yeast.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Hey, from the yeast nutrient experiment I did using sugar wash the DIY nutrient shouldn't flavor the brew. It's just the live stuff that's the worry 😜

[@shcomptech]

​@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap Interesting, thanks for the reply.

[@raytruesdell7873]

Could you do a video on agave just asking and thank you stay safe 👍

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Hey yeah in the future I do have one planned 🙂

[@nellynelson965]

I got a doombar kit just for something different to do. Yeast was DOA so used my trusty bakers. Tastes ok but fek me it this thing cloudy. Even put it in teh freezer for 30 mins and thenteh fridge to cold crash it to see if that would help, lot of silt but still cloudy. But tastes ok still. No its not doombar.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Haven't had doombar In a very long time, not a fan but it's cheap 🤣 yeah bread yeast is better than nothing. it's a lotto on what you get. I'm hoping that my previous results pass over to this and should clear up easily.

[@nellynelson965]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap giving it till wednesday. if it hasnt started looking less like puddle water ill try putting glycerine in to clear it.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Puddle water sounds yummy 😂 hopefully that will clear it ☺️

[@ldarm]

Nice video, just started my first batch

[@nazteeb]

Excellent stuff! I tend to use the Youngs nutrient but I get appx 11% on a 4lb honey mead! Yum!

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

nice :) I tend to use either youngs or vin classe, depending on how much brewing i'm doing or where i buy my supplies from. usually 3-4 jars ( depending on size ) get to 11% but this time all it took was 2. odd but it is what it is. :P

[@m4tz_e652]

Could be less water in the demijon giving u higher abv??... Thanks for coming back 👍🏼

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

While I use ish as a measurement, a 1% difference is fine and can be put down to water differences or slightly more or less sugar but 3%, that's just weird 😉

[@m4tz_e652]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap must be something that honey aye!! Haha....😌🥃

[@ahmelmahay]

ive been brewing Mead for years and ive never had a bread yeast taste...i use 3lbs honey. 1 cinnamon stick, a pinch of all spice 3 cloves, 25 or so finely chopped raisins then add 1/4 tsp of aldi bread yeast then top up with water. ABV of 16 % knocks the scoks off ya

[@brummiesteve3825]

How did it turn out..👍

[@angussmith1156]

You put two packs of yest changed the consistency then another at the end??

[@dannywhite132]

oo someones been saving up videos haha. you may remember i work in science (microbiology). I found a package of yeast nutrient/extract the other day that expired in 1983 (and these thing have a shelf life of like 10 years) so ive come to the conclusion that yeast will happily grow in anything.....no matter what concoction i make up XD As the self titled "king of cheapo brewing" Ive invested in a britta filter. Think theyre worth doing because you dont have to buy filtered water every time (saving plastic) and with lockdown it means fewer trips to the shops.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Ha ha 😂 indeed yeast doesn't care all that much. It's just us humans that can be fussy 😜 If you're water is funky then it's the way to go. My tap water is much nicer than the bottled stuff but seems a waste to dump it 😁

[@dannywhite132]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap i drink scotch, and when I yse ice cubes from the tap I notice a lot of stuff precipitates out. Since using the filter is much better

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Sounds like some really funky water 😝 I also like a good whisky and that's never happened to me with ice.

[@dannywhite132]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap yeah its not good. A few years back they found petrol and oil in our water supply....I wondered why my tea tastes slightly 2 strokey...

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

That sounds yummy 🤤 I only managed a year in middle Kingdom before going north then south 😂. One of big reasons I won't live there is the water.

[@hrnekbezucha]

I'm working only with bread yeast and the gnarly yeasty tastes dissipate when you let the bottle age a few months. Then all the nasty roughness is gone and the alcohol and fruity flavours combine nicely. And honestly, I don't bother with the home-made nutrients, fruit juices have plenty vitamins and stuff for the yeast to munch on. It's only an issue when you do sugar wash.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

hey, different yeasts and different tastes, low alcohol bread yeast brews i can't really tell but the higher alcohol ones produce flavors that don't sit well with me no matter how long its aged. thats the funk i'm talking about. the diy nutrient should act as a sort of conditioner ( well thats what happened in the small scale )

[@hrnekbezucha]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap You may be right, I'll give the diy nutrient another bash next time :)

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

@@hrnekbezucha well if it works :P

[@aidennymes6335]

i've just watched your diy yeast nutrient videos. good you didn't have to use your safety funnel thing for the honey :D

[@TPCider]

great that your back fella.... also nice to see you like a reign drink or ten ! #sourapple

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

hey, only just saw you're message, damn goblins! thank. reign sour apple or watermelon is my replacement drink for cola and i like the cans too :)

[@kb2vca]

Great video. By my rule of thumb, I would think an SG of 1.068 is potentially closer to about 9% ABV (1.068 * 131). A good idea to use dead yeast cells as the nutrient base for yeast. Not sure if there is any evidence for this but I generally "proof" the yeast before killing them so that they are fully rehydrated AND they have all the sterols and other compounds they need to reproduce so that the yeast I am using to ferment have a richer harvest. But that said, I suspect the real problem with bread yeast is not so much that it is not guaranteed to have as high a tolerance for alcohol as lab cultured wine yeasts but that it has not been developed to flocculate (collect and fall out of solution) in the same way that wine and beer yeasts do. That means that in any wine you are going to be drinking an enormous number of dead yeast cells which is one reason why drinks made with bread yeast taste... yeasty. Another reason may be that the number of viable cells you pitch may be significantly smaller than when you pitch wine or beer yeast and when you "under-pitch" you typically and counter-intuitively get yeasty odors and tastes.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

hey,10.24% would be the accurate reading but that doesn't factor in the temperature difference the hydrometer is calibrated for or human error :P bread yeast has many unknows, its sole puropse is to fart a bit to make bread rise. like you say attunation and floculation is not tested or needed for bread yeast.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Saw you added a comment but my spam filter deleted it. I'm guessing by what I saw you're reading the hydrometer to 1.000

[@kb2vca]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap I assume that , yes... But what I posted was that in the US online calculators of potential ABV would suggest that an SG of 1.068 would be closer 9%. And clearly all conversions are approximate as hydrometers don't actually measure the ethanol in solution but the density of liquids...

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Any links or swearing get auto deleted due to "those people" 😳 The reason we are getting different measurements is you're figures are based on 1.000 and I'm using 0.990. the 1st measurement is the potential and the second is the actual.

[@kb2vca]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap That does make sense but I guess you would want to make this clear to subscribers as most wines don't drop below .996 and many wines finish at 1.000

[@marksmith7374]

Have you ever made any cannabis infused wine??

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

when i lived in holland i didn't make wine but i did make replacing the hops for the devils lettuce :P was pretty good

[@wacotablet1055]

Congrats on the weight loss bro

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Thanks, it's still an on going thing. 😜

[@johndoe9979]

You must be getting you're bread yeast from China

[@johndoe9979]

You must be getting you're bread yeast from China

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Things like yeast balls I do get from china.

[@davidedwards6807]

Have u lost weight

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Hey yeah did need the extra anymore ☺️

[@davidedwards6807]

Suits u lol

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Thanks 👍

[@davidedwards6807]

Love ure channel you have inspired me to make wine and mead love it

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Well I'm glad my channel help you take the plunge into the addictive world of home-brewing 👍