Hi all,
on the 21st of Jan. I started another (my third now) basic mead. The first I wrote about has turned out fine after all - was worried it might have gone wrong at a point. It is now bottled, corked and labelled and has turned out a treat.
The second is still ageing and will be bottled soon.(it was made in June 2005)
For the third I decided to take it a size larger than before.
Now to my question,...
I started off with 11 kilograms of Honey which I dissolved in water.
Made a starter with Lalvin EC-1118 which I added after a short 5 hours as it was going well. In total it makes an amount of 22 litres of must.
Sadly my cat managed to break my hydrometer - my own fault really - she moved something else and that triggered a few other things in the shelf and crash. Oh well - bought a new one!
This means - no SG at the start.
My reading on the 31st of Jan. came to 1.090 SG.
So I plugged the data into the mead calculator and hope I got this right...
The SG at the beginning would have been 1.153. Fermenting to the end would theoretically bring me to 20.86 %ABV.
With the hydrometer reading of 1.090 (after 10 days - I am impressed) I would have had 12.06 %ABV at the time of the reading.
Correct?
If so, I need to monitor closely now as I want to get it to 16isch %ABV max. as EC-1118 will go quite a way and I don't want to run a tractor with the stuff.
My thoughts regarding this batch are to divide it into 3 portions and leaving one of them basic.
The other two I will experiment with. Something along the lines of adding flowers of Tilia platyphyllos or an extract of them in the secondary.
When I get the feel for basic mead I will start playing with other ingredients in the primary.
But for now I am mainly trying different yeasts and methods for the basic meads.
Thanks for any help, clues, criticism,....
Greets
Corvus
on the 21st of Jan. I started another (my third now) basic mead. The first I wrote about has turned out fine after all - was worried it might have gone wrong at a point. It is now bottled, corked and labelled and has turned out a treat.
The second is still ageing and will be bottled soon.(it was made in June 2005)
For the third I decided to take it a size larger than before.
Now to my question,...
I started off with 11 kilograms of Honey which I dissolved in water.
Made a starter with Lalvin EC-1118 which I added after a short 5 hours as it was going well. In total it makes an amount of 22 litres of must.
Sadly my cat managed to break my hydrometer - my own fault really - she moved something else and that triggered a few other things in the shelf and crash. Oh well - bought a new one!
This means - no SG at the start.
My reading on the 31st of Jan. came to 1.090 SG.
So I plugged the data into the mead calculator and hope I got this right...
The SG at the beginning would have been 1.153. Fermenting to the end would theoretically bring me to 20.86 %ABV.
With the hydrometer reading of 1.090 (after 10 days - I am impressed) I would have had 12.06 %ABV at the time of the reading.
Correct?
If so, I need to monitor closely now as I want to get it to 16isch %ABV max. as EC-1118 will go quite a way and I don't want to run a tractor with the stuff.
My thoughts regarding this batch are to divide it into 3 portions and leaving one of them basic.
The other two I will experiment with. Something along the lines of adding flowers of Tilia platyphyllos or an extract of them in the secondary.
When I get the feel for basic mead I will start playing with other ingredients in the primary.
But for now I am mainly trying different yeasts and methods for the basic meads.
Thanks for any help, clues, criticism,....
Greets
Corvus