Hello this is my first post on this awesome site! Last Saturday I brewed up my first 2 batches of mead. One was a pretty standard beginner recipe with an orange and raisins, and the other one was with Green Tea.
After I finally popped on the airlocks both were bubbling away within about half an hour. The one with the orange and raisins is still going strong giving off about 1 bubble every 2 seconds, but the one with the green tea in it has slowed down a lot, and is now only bubbling once every 20 seconds. Is that even necessarily bad? Here is the recipe I used:
3 pounds of honey (local from a farm down the road)
1 gallon of water (approximately)
16 organic green tea bags *
1 teaspoon LD Carlson Yeast nutrient
1/2 teaspoon LD Carlson Yeast energizer
What I did was funnel in 1/3 of the honey into a gallon glass jug. Then I added 1/3 of the water, and shook the jug really well to dissolve the honey. Then I added the rest of the honey, and a little more water, the yeast nutrient, and energizer, and shook it really good again. Then I added the green tea bags.
* I choose my favorite brand, and used 16 bags because it's a ratio that I know I like when brewing this particular brand. I left the stings on, but ripped off the tags. There are no staples left behind.
One roblem I have was I might have filled up the jug with too much water. I say this because 12 hours later when I checked back up on it, the mead was starting to bubble up into the airlock. I corrected this by gentle pouring out approx. 8oz of the mead, and cleaning up the airlock. It has been good to go since then, and was bubbling like once ever 2 seconds for the next 4 days, but only since today has it slowed down.
Thank input would be really really appreciated!
After I finally popped on the airlocks both were bubbling away within about half an hour. The one with the orange and raisins is still going strong giving off about 1 bubble every 2 seconds, but the one with the green tea in it has slowed down a lot, and is now only bubbling once every 20 seconds. Is that even necessarily bad? Here is the recipe I used:
3 pounds of honey (local from a farm down the road)
1 gallon of water (approximately)
16 organic green tea bags *
1 teaspoon LD Carlson Yeast nutrient
1/2 teaspoon LD Carlson Yeast energizer
What I did was funnel in 1/3 of the honey into a gallon glass jug. Then I added 1/3 of the water, and shook the jug really well to dissolve the honey. Then I added the rest of the honey, and a little more water, the yeast nutrient, and energizer, and shook it really good again. Then I added the green tea bags.
* I choose my favorite brand, and used 16 bags because it's a ratio that I know I like when brewing this particular brand. I left the stings on, but ripped off the tags. There are no staples left behind.
One roblem I have was I might have filled up the jug with too much water. I say this because 12 hours later when I checked back up on it, the mead was starting to bubble up into the airlock. I corrected this by gentle pouring out approx. 8oz of the mead, and cleaning up the airlock. It has been good to go since then, and was bubbling like once ever 2 seconds for the next 4 days, but only since today has it slowed down.
Thank input would be really really appreciated!
