Pineapple Coconut Melomel (Mead) - Lag phase is over

Today at lunch I came home and saw the air lock giving me a bubble every 10 seconds or so.  From my perspective that means its ready for some junk food!

I added 4g of Fermaid-K and 2g of DAP both mixed into some water then poured into the must.  Gave it a good stir and closed everything back up.  Time to get back to work!

Calculating Nitrogen/YAN/FAN in a batch of Mead/Beer/Wine

Okay, so as an extension to calculating PPM (my explanation of calculating PPM, Read it first if you don't already know about PPM) I wanted to explain how to calculate nitrogen additions to your brew.

I only talk about the Lallemand products here because they are just about the only guys out there who will tell us what's in their shit!  Seriously people, if they won't tell us what's in there we are going on FAITH and that's just as bad as grabbing a handful, walking 10 feet away then throwing it at the fermenter.  Whatever goes in is how much you add.  Does that sound right?  NO!

How to calculate PPM as it pertains to mead/beer/wine

So, the question about PPM always seems to come up so I decided to write down my thoughts on the matter. I hope this helps everyone reading...