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Diammonium phosphate

Nutrients and enzymes

DAP

Inorganic nitrogen for the yeast, the direct fix for a starved ferment.

Typical dose

Staged, commonly up to about 1 g/L in total, split across additions rather than dumped in.

When to add it

In stages, at the start and around a third of the way down, not all at once.

In practice

Pure, cheap, yeast-available nitrogen, and the direct answer to the hydrogen sulphide a nitrogen-starved ferment throws. Added all at once it drives a hot, aggressive ferment and can leave a residue; staged, it carries the yeast through the risky middle third. It supplies nothing but nitrogen and phosphate, which is why complex nutrients exist.

Linked faults are the ones this addition either treats or, used wrongly, causes. The fault page says which, and whether it can be undone.