Hello all,
Brand new to the forum and joined to get some speedy advice.
My friend who I usually make mead with was out of the country for the past year so I was not paying much attention to the last brew we made before he left.
I foolishly left an entire 5 gallon carboy of mead for a year without checking it. The mead had already been racked twice and I was waiting for additional particles to settle out before bottling but then got lazy when school started up for me last fall.
I just checked it now and the water in the airlock has totally evaporated and I am not sure if it is drinkable anymore. I assume it would have oxidized pretty badly from that but I wanted to ask this forum what they think.
It smells and tastes alot like fresh mead or young mead (not aged) for some reason and I am not sure what to do.
bottle and hope for the best? or dump it down the drain and start again?
Torin
Brand new to the forum and joined to get some speedy advice.
My friend who I usually make mead with was out of the country for the past year so I was not paying much attention to the last brew we made before he left.
I foolishly left an entire 5 gallon carboy of mead for a year without checking it. The mead had already been racked twice and I was waiting for additional particles to settle out before bottling but then got lazy when school started up for me last fall.
I just checked it now and the water in the airlock has totally evaporated and I am not sure if it is drinkable anymore. I assume it would have oxidized pretty badly from that but I wanted to ask this forum what they think.
It smells and tastes alot like fresh mead or young mead (not aged) for some reason and I am not sure what to do.
bottle and hope for the best? or dump it down the drain and start again?
Torin