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Default Maximum sugar without choking fermentation?


"Bolwerk" > wrote in message
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> On 2/24/2013 12:04 PM, Dave West wrote:
>> Thanks. However Grated ginger, yeast, table sugar, and lemon and it
>> ferments like crazy.

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> I can believe it ferments, but the results might be vastly better if you
> add some yeast nutrients.

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Thanks. I read somewhere long time ago that the yeasty sediment from the
previous brew acts as a *good* yeast nutrient, is that true please?

If that is not the case, are there any natural nutrients that could be used
instead of the the quite expensive tiny packets from the shops?