Yesterday I made two batches: one beer and one mead. The beer is bubbling away like crazy, the mead, well, not...
I made an almost 20l batch and sanitized everything thoroughly, added all necessary things (I think), checked the temperatures, etc. Here is the link to my brewlog: Brewlog
So after 24h nothing has happened. I'm sitting next to it now and it made for or five small bubbles and then stopped again. The water also flowed back in the airlock. The mead is almost 20l and is in a 30l fermenting bucket. The yeast was an already open package I stored closed in the fridge for 18 days.
So; what are possible reasons? My yeast died in the fridge? Is is possible that I aerated so much that the yeast is first multiplying and using aerobic metabolism in stead of producing ethanol? Maybe I filled my airlock too much? Do I need to measure pH or something? I didn't add citric acid, like I normally do, because I thought there would be enough acid in the oranges and cranberry. Maybe there's too much sugar? Or maybe I'm just too impatience?
I'm a bit worried because this is the biggest batch I ever made and also the most expensive one. If this one fails, I'd be sad
I made an almost 20l batch and sanitized everything thoroughly, added all necessary things (I think), checked the temperatures, etc. Here is the link to my brewlog: Brewlog
So after 24h nothing has happened. I'm sitting next to it now and it made for or five small bubbles and then stopped again. The water also flowed back in the airlock. The mead is almost 20l and is in a 30l fermenting bucket. The yeast was an already open package I stored closed in the fridge for 18 days.
So; what are possible reasons? My yeast died in the fridge? Is is possible that I aerated so much that the yeast is first multiplying and using aerobic metabolism in stead of producing ethanol? Maybe I filled my airlock too much? Do I need to measure pH or something? I didn't add citric acid, like I normally do, because I thought there would be enough acid in the oranges and cranberry. Maybe there's too much sugar? Or maybe I'm just too impatience?
I'm a bit worried because this is the biggest batch I ever made and also the most expensive one. If this one fails, I'd be sad