Hello mead mentors!,
I started making my 1st Pineapple Melomel yesterday night, and after checking it this morning (after 12 hours) its gone NUTS!.
Its bubbling in the airlock every second, but my concern is this, the airlock has sucked up the must and is now basically full and has a lot of brown foam in it.
The neck of the dem-john is also nearly full of the brown foam, ive now left it in the large stock pot I have in its normal spot just incase it starts to over flow while im at work.
My procedure was this: Mixed the pineapple juice with the honey in a large stock pot, rehydrated the yeast as by instructions, pitched the yeast after leaving it for 15-20 minutes and then went to town shaking the hell out of the DJ until my arms couldn’t take any more, topped it of with water to just below the neck, poped on the airlock with the water filled up to the recommended fill lines and let it be.
3lbs Local Honey
3 ltrs pure pineapple juice (not the concentrated stuff)
Young’s Super Wine Compound (Bentonite, Dried Wine Yeast, DAP, Trace Vitamins, Trace Minerals)
Toped up to 1 gallon tap water
Any suggestions?
And should I empty the airlock and put a clean one on? Or just wait until I rack it?
Thanks again to every one.
;D
I started making my 1st Pineapple Melomel yesterday night, and after checking it this morning (after 12 hours) its gone NUTS!.
Its bubbling in the airlock every second, but my concern is this, the airlock has sucked up the must and is now basically full and has a lot of brown foam in it.
The neck of the dem-john is also nearly full of the brown foam, ive now left it in the large stock pot I have in its normal spot just incase it starts to over flow while im at work.
My procedure was this: Mixed the pineapple juice with the honey in a large stock pot, rehydrated the yeast as by instructions, pitched the yeast after leaving it for 15-20 minutes and then went to town shaking the hell out of the DJ until my arms couldn’t take any more, topped it of with water to just below the neck, poped on the airlock with the water filled up to the recommended fill lines and let it be.
3lbs Local Honey
3 ltrs pure pineapple juice (not the concentrated stuff)
Young’s Super Wine Compound (Bentonite, Dried Wine Yeast, DAP, Trace Vitamins, Trace Minerals)
Toped up to 1 gallon tap water
Any suggestions?
And should I empty the airlock and put a clean one on? Or just wait until I rack it?
Thanks again to every one.
;D