Fermaid K

[SamGamgee]

I know that Fermaid K is supposed to be for wine and mead, but can anyone comment on it's performance as a beer yeast nutrient? I picked it up at my local shop because it's all that they carry and I'm hoping that it's going to work well.

[JP]

We've been recommending it for years as a beer nutrient. And actually, the #1 consumer of Fermaid K is Guinness South Africa.

Use it. Love it.

[bcmaui]

I've used both Fermaid K and Wyeast's yeast nutrient. Wyeast has two different packages for the exact same product - one for wine and one for beer - but the suggested pitching rates for a 5 gallon batch are the same. I usually drop the stuff in about the same time I put in the immersion chiller - about 15 minutes before flameout.

If you ever use White Labs' servomyeces you need to take it out of the gelatin capsule - it is not mentioned on the packaging, but after I found the tablet intact with the hop debris in my boil kettle, I figured it was not doing anything for the wort that had been transferred over to the fermenter.

[SamGamgee]

Thanks guys. I was just hoping that there was not something oddly wine-specific about it, and other searches were pretty ambiguous.