You blogs steer everyone to protocol for us newbies, asking us to describe our Receipes and methods. So being new to mead world here is what I did...I had an abundance of honey from my bees so I decided to do mead. I went to a "storm castle" site, and followed a basic Receipe from their. 4 gal spring water, 18 lbs honey and lavlin 118,( they called for 47 or something but couldn't find it.) some yeast nutrient. Followed the steps...super clean all that stuff. The must pot went nuts the next day...then petered out to nothing. So pitched more, stirred vigorously, started bubbling again then petered out to nothing.
So I went and got a sg reader...don't really know how to use it, it read 1.0. I assume that is not good. So I transferred it from the plastic must pot into my prepared carboy, pitched more yeast and nutrient ...that was three days ago..I,m looking at my big glass jug and am starting to talk to it, asking it
"what do you want me to do?"
It smells fine, I don't want to give up on it. So I,m thinking this...back to the must pot, pitch again, and add more water, my thinking is that the sugar content of my honey is to high. This is why....
A week and a bit ago, I started a second batch in a must pot, same honey I used for my first attemp, but 15 lbs, 4 gal spring water, lav118, nutrient and handful raspberries and 1 vanilla stick...it is doing well from appearences. The sg read 1.72 and temp was 72 what ever that means! I transferred it to a carboy and it's burping regularly. So this is why I think that adding water is how to rescue my dead batch. Can't think of anything else to tell you, but that I wish I had found this blog before I began. Be gentle on me...as you can see from my talking to my mead pot, thst i am the emotional type.
So I went and got a sg reader...don't really know how to use it, it read 1.0. I assume that is not good. So I transferred it from the plastic must pot into my prepared carboy, pitched more yeast and nutrient ...that was three days ago..I,m looking at my big glass jug and am starting to talk to it, asking it
"what do you want me to do?"
It smells fine, I don't want to give up on it. So I,m thinking this...back to the must pot, pitch again, and add more water, my thinking is that the sugar content of my honey is to high. This is why....
A week and a bit ago, I started a second batch in a must pot, same honey I used for my first attemp, but 15 lbs, 4 gal spring water, lav118, nutrient and handful raspberries and 1 vanilla stick...it is doing well from appearences. The sg read 1.72 and temp was 72 what ever that means! I transferred it to a carboy and it's burping regularly. So this is why I think that adding water is how to rescue my dead batch. Can't think of anything else to tell you, but that I wish I had found this blog before I began. Be gentle on me...as you can see from my talking to my mead pot, thst i am the emotional type.
