Hi everyone, I FINALLY got my first homebrew kit, and am currently making a sweet stout in it, but before I started the beer, I wanted to make sure I wasn't being a total moron and bought (for a whopping $10, ingredients and all) the stuff necessary to make Joe's ancient orange mead to put up first, seeing as the recipe was so simple. (it's on the main page, or here, if you don't want to click around http://www.gotmead.com/index.php?option=com_rapidrecipe&page=viewrecipe&recipe_id=118&Itemid=459)
All is going well with the mead, it's bubbling away, about 3 weeks in, and I'm wondering about doing a second ferment to make it sparkling.
First, I'm wondering if it's even possible with such a simple mead, second, I'm wondering when would be the right time to bottle it off for the second ferment, and third, would it be as simple as throwing in some more priming sugar (and how much to use for 1 gallon) and bottling/capping it?
I've never had a sparkling mead before, but I'm absolutely in love with regular meads, everything from dark and sweet blackcurrant wine that drinks more like port, to Skye river meadery's offerings, which are all just stupidly tasty. If this works well, I'll be buying two more carboy setups and will be doing two batches of mead along with every batch of beer.
Oh, and it's going in glass cocoa cola bottles, because I have about 80 of them ;D
All is going well with the mead, it's bubbling away, about 3 weeks in, and I'm wondering about doing a second ferment to make it sparkling.
First, I'm wondering if it's even possible with such a simple mead, second, I'm wondering when would be the right time to bottle it off for the second ferment, and third, would it be as simple as throwing in some more priming sugar (and how much to use for 1 gallon) and bottling/capping it?
I've never had a sparkling mead before, but I'm absolutely in love with regular meads, everything from dark and sweet blackcurrant wine that drinks more like port, to Skye river meadery's offerings, which are all just stupidly tasty. If this works well, I'll be buying two more carboy setups and will be doing two batches of mead along with every batch of beer.
Oh, and it's going in glass cocoa cola bottles, because I have about 80 of them ;D