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