Lalvin Ec 1118 Mead Recipe 👉 Its a neutral yeast having little effect on the honey character. Chuck when looking at the profile chart for the Lalvin wine yeast you can see that the RC 212 wine yeast that you used has a moderate fermentation speed and a good alcohol tolerance but yet it is not producing a wine that is dry enough for your tastes.
I have tried EC-1118 in several recipes for both mead and sake. Click here for a PDF of the MoreWine Manual on re-hydrating wine yeast. EC 1118 yeast is a neutral strain that will have little effect on the flavor.
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Fill With Water up to 1 Gallon. For this reason I would suggest trying the Lalvin EC 1118 next time. The simplest Mead to make often called a Show Mead contains nothing more than Honey water and yeast. Meadmosa Recipe Mead Mimosa Combined 3 Pounds of Honey Orange Blossom works best 2 Grams of Lalvin EC-1118.