/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1159127
>How important are additive yeast nutrients, anyhow?
Depends on what you're fermenting.
Pure honey and water supposedly really need nutrients, but I've made blackberry mead with just honey, water and blackberries.

Speaking of honey, I've tried making bochet, which is honey and water, but you boil the honey for a long time before adding it to the water.
This caramelizes the sugar in the honey, and makes the flavor more interesting.

I used my usual nutrients (raisins and tea), but it stalled at 6.5% alcohol content, not sure why.
I bottled it despite the low content because I didn't want to mess with the flavor by reducing the sweetness.
Apparently it kept fermenting, because now (6 years later) it has a light, delicate carbonation.

I'm about to try bochet again, but this time with either apple juice or maybe some diluted orange juice for more flavor (and nutrients).