The mead, 4 gallons in a 5 gallon carboy...i have nothing smaller other than two one gallon carboys, has decided that it would like to give me the middle finger after smelling and tasting good. It smells of sulfur, it is there, and it is distinct.
I cold crashed the full 5 gallon carboy in the fridge for about 3 days to get the yeast to stop feeding..it was nearing 16% and I didnt want it that high. I then racked out 1 gallon of it onto some raspberries in a one gallon carboy, and the rest went into another 5 gallon carboy.
The raspberry batch smells wonderful.
I cleaned and used the acid sanitizer on all equipment, rinsed very very well, i was paranoid after my last batch failed.
The only other ingredients in the 5 gallons carboy other than mead are 4 cloves and half of a split vanilla bean and there is...well was soome foam on top very light and not very thick kinda swirly kinda not, it was not moving on its own, but I shook it to see if I could gas it..
I also used the recomended dose of sodium metebisulfate to help keep anything else from happening. Also this smell crept up over night it was not in the original.
Its in the nose, not in the taste, tastes fine actually like it did before I cold crashed it.
Can anybody tell me how to get rid of this before I pull my hair out...being so close to TRF and I will have nothing to bring...aside from a few bottles of raspberry melomel. Im not serving anybody this awful smelling, good tasting mead to anybody.
I cold crashed the full 5 gallon carboy in the fridge for about 3 days to get the yeast to stop feeding..it was nearing 16% and I didnt want it that high. I then racked out 1 gallon of it onto some raspberries in a one gallon carboy, and the rest went into another 5 gallon carboy.
The raspberry batch smells wonderful.
I cleaned and used the acid sanitizer on all equipment, rinsed very very well, i was paranoid after my last batch failed.
The only other ingredients in the 5 gallons carboy other than mead are 4 cloves and half of a split vanilla bean and there is...well was soome foam on top very light and not very thick kinda swirly kinda not, it was not moving on its own, but I shook it to see if I could gas it..
I also used the recomended dose of sodium metebisulfate to help keep anything else from happening. Also this smell crept up over night it was not in the original.
Its in the nose, not in the taste, tastes fine actually like it did before I cold crashed it.
Can anybody tell me how to get rid of this before I pull my hair out...being so close to TRF and I will have nothing to bring...aside from a few bottles of raspberry melomel. Im not serving anybody this awful smelling, good tasting mead to anybody.