About Scheduling a Private Instruction
This is Lesson 6 of our home winemaking lesson plan. Our private instruction lesson plans are instruction only. They do not include beverage/food production on site or any beverage/food handling.
The World of Wine Yeast - Yeast Choices, Nutrition, Residual Sugar, and Restart of Stuck Fermentation
Approximate lesson time: 40-60 minutes
This Lesson 6 Plan Includes:
- Key Elements of selecting a yeast (review the yeast chart together)
- Temperature, Alcohol Tolerance, Tannic Extraction, Aromatic Profile
- Basic yeast nutritional needs
- Factors leading to slow and troubled fermentations - toxins and unhealthy yeast
- Byproducts of troubled fermentations and how to address them
- how to prevent stuck and troubled fermentations with Go-Ferm and nutrient programs
- Testing for completion of sugar fermentation
- Review the process of stuck fermentation restart