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Yeast hulls

Nutrients and enzymes

yeast ghosts, inactivated yeast cell walls

Detoxify a stuck ferment and give the yeast a surface to work from.

Typical dose

Around 0.2 to 0.5 g/L when restarting a stuck wine.

When to add it

When restarting a stuck fermentation, alongside a fresh starter.

In practice

The cell walls adsorb the toxic medium-chain fatty acids that build up in a struggling ferment and inhibit the yeast further, and they also provide nucleation sites and trace nutrients. They are part of a restart protocol rather than a routine addition, and they will adsorb a little copper on the way.

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