Hi,
I purchased my first sweet mead kit with the liquid yeast I cann't remember if it was white labs or wyeast it came in a tube....i think it was wyeast but won't swear to it. I followed all the directions on midwestsupplies website for making sweat mead. It started to bubble(about once every 20-30 seconds) at one week. At one month I racked, but I didn't see yeast at the bottom as im used to with beer. The liquid was darker at the bottom(lee's ??). The s.g. had dropped by .5 or .10 or less. its s.g. started at either 1.60 or 1.70. about month later i racked again this time a thin layer of yeast at bottom like paint s.g. might have dropped a little more id say maybe .10 total drop from starting s.g. So I added more yeast nutrients. its still bubbleing real slow and its been 3 months total going on 4. At this rate I don't see how it could be done in another month as per instructions. i see on here some people are getting final gravitys of 1.19 i did a beer kit that didn't get that low.what did I do wrong and what can I do to speed it up(will trying to speed it up affect the taste)? anything else sound wrong? or more info needed?
thanks
I purchased my first sweet mead kit with the liquid yeast I cann't remember if it was white labs or wyeast it came in a tube....i think it was wyeast but won't swear to it. I followed all the directions on midwestsupplies website for making sweat mead. It started to bubble(about once every 20-30 seconds) at one week. At one month I racked, but I didn't see yeast at the bottom as im used to with beer. The liquid was darker at the bottom(lee's ??). The s.g. had dropped by .5 or .10 or less. its s.g. started at either 1.60 or 1.70. about month later i racked again this time a thin layer of yeast at bottom like paint s.g. might have dropped a little more id say maybe .10 total drop from starting s.g. So I added more yeast nutrients. its still bubbleing real slow and its been 3 months total going on 4. At this rate I don't see how it could be done in another month as per instructions. i see on here some people are getting final gravitys of 1.19 i did a beer kit that didn't get that low.what did I do wrong and what can I do to speed it up(will trying to speed it up affect the taste)? anything else sound wrong? or more info needed?
thanks