EC-1118 is an outstanding all purpose yeast. Beer, wine, mead, it does them all. The only downside that is that it will ferment to absolute dryness and survive high ABV, meaning you must stabilize if you intend to backsweeten. Otherwise you'll end up with cloudy drink at best or bottle bombs at worst.
A man of good tastes. EC-1118 is an excellent yeast for all the reasons you pointed out. It would especially be good for Josh because, as its such a versatile yeast, if you want to do weird ass combos (not quite a wine, not quite a mead, maybe more fruit not typical of a traditional wine, etc) the end result would end up fairly good.
I think the biggest issue with the wine saga, is Josh did the minimum amount of research, (yeast+sugar water=booze) and now feels he doesnt need to be told what to do. Even with advice from his reddit on airlocks, types of yeast, etc, Josh interprets it as people trolling him and personally insulting him.
In many ways its same old same old. Josh always knows best, wether its safety precautions for the lathe juan making, how to feed and care for Puff, basic cooking tips, grooming habits, and so on. Josh cannot accept any advice.
Most cows have this trait, but Josh is an intresting study because one wonders how much of this behavior is coming from his own personality, and how much of it is a conditioned reaction due to the poo touchers and real trolls that have gone over board with cow tipping. In many ways I think its both. Perhaps some sort of defense mechanism from trolls, and his own boglim neurology.
