ok i have made 2 meads, one is a 1 yr old show mead 12 pounds clove or ob honey 5 gallons in a new plastic carboy it started off really slow with liquid sweat mead yeast think whitelabs. the other mead is the anceint orange recipe that i followed to the T i racked it at about 1 month then let it sit and age for about 3 more.
so the show mead finished very dry at a surprising 0 and my meter or 1.0 w/e. which shouldn't be since i used sweat mead yeast. i racked this show mead at 1 month, then 6months and then i just bottled it yesterday. i have 2 problems with this yeast
1. there was a layer about quarter inch think on the top of it. this layer was white...cloudy white. it wasn't a solid, it looked kinda like mucus..jelly like. also while it was sitting in carboy the volume started high and dropped about a inch or two, there was about 5 lines of white rings where the level had been, this mucus stuff stuck to the sides and dryed. what is this stuff? also when racking there was alot of hissing and foam going on
2. i racked under this layer of mucus and bottle about 3/4 of it, and i dumped the rest. i got brave and tasted it and it didn't taste very good. when it was younger it tasted ALOT like rocket fuel but that has went away some but its still very much there and that is what tastes so bad.
the orange mead
1.this stuff would taste really great....and smells great too....but it has MAJOR ROCKET FUEL taste. This stuff could very easily be mistaken for vodka 200 proof. and i thought it was said it could be drank and tasted good at just 1 month?
I know its not the receipes fault im not blameing anyone but myself. i know its something i did or havn't done...just looking for some anwsers if anyone is kind enough.
i didn't take a meter on the orange because all the floatys when i started.
so the show mead finished very dry at a surprising 0 and my meter or 1.0 w/e. which shouldn't be since i used sweat mead yeast. i racked this show mead at 1 month, then 6months and then i just bottled it yesterday. i have 2 problems with this yeast
1. there was a layer about quarter inch think on the top of it. this layer was white...cloudy white. it wasn't a solid, it looked kinda like mucus..jelly like. also while it was sitting in carboy the volume started high and dropped about a inch or two, there was about 5 lines of white rings where the level had been, this mucus stuff stuck to the sides and dryed. what is this stuff? also when racking there was alot of hissing and foam going on
2. i racked under this layer of mucus and bottle about 3/4 of it, and i dumped the rest. i got brave and tasted it and it didn't taste very good. when it was younger it tasted ALOT like rocket fuel but that has went away some but its still very much there and that is what tastes so bad.
the orange mead
1.this stuff would taste really great....and smells great too....but it has MAJOR ROCKET FUEL taste. This stuff could very easily be mistaken for vodka 200 proof. and i thought it was said it could be drank and tasted good at just 1 month?
I know its not the receipes fault im not blameing anyone but myself. i know its something i did or havn't done...just looking for some anwsers if anyone is kind enough.
i didn't take a meter on the orange because all the floatys when i started.