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Reddit mentions of Infusion Oak Spitals - Heavy Toast - 2 Spirals
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- Heavy toasted American oak
- Takes 6 weeks for maximum extraction
- Great for oaking wines, beers, ciders, and meads
- Heavy toast adds pronounced caramelized wood, with notes of smoke and toasted bread.
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Staggered nutrient addition is useful to avoid stressing your yeast so it's drinkable sooner. Same goes for degassing, but that also brings oxygen into the ferment to help improve taste.
My personal favorite yeast is RC212 because it's very temperature tolerant and is good to 16%ish ABV. So if you want a good basic 1 gallon recipe for dry traditional:
In a 2 gallon bucket, add 5.3 lbs of honey and enough water to reach 1.125 specific gravity (should be around 1.4 gallon total volume). Rehydrate 5g of RC212 in 7.5g of go ferm in 100ml of ~115F water. After 10 minutes of that, add 75ml of honey/water must to the rehydrating yeast, stir, then pitch into the bucket.
At 24/48/72 and 96 hours after pitching your yeast, add 2g of fermaid O to the brew. Degas twice per day for the first week by stirring aggressively.
After specific gravity doesn't change for a week, rack it off the lees into a sanitized 1 gallon carboy that has a medium toasted oak spiral (half of one of these is perfect) in it and let sit in secondary until it's clear enough to read newspaper headlines through the mead and carboy. Then bottle and age for another 6-12 months before drinking.