This is my second time brewing mead after a long hiatus from the first, but I usually brew beer.
I followed a basic recipe for ginger mead I had written down that I forgot the origins of, and 24 hours after pitching the yeast absolutely nothing has changed. Here is the recipe and steps I did:
8.5 lbs of wildflower honey
~4 oz of ginger
5 campden tablets
10 tspn acid blend
5 tsp super ferment (nutrient)
1 tsp grape tannins
71b-1122 dehydrated yeast
water to 5 gallons
1. mixed the all of the ingredients except yeast and let it sit for one day.
2. rehydrated the yeast for 15 minutes in water at about 100 F.
3. pitched yeast and aerated by shaking for about 5 minutes. temperature was about 65 F
4. overnight I used no airlock on the carboy, but this morning I put one on to see if anything was happening. so far no bubbling at all.
5. I re-aerated the mead this morning and raised the temperature some. still nothing at all.
The main difference I see is that I used a lot less honey than most, so maybe I should add more. The recipe i think was for a lighter, drier kind of product. Even if this is the problem, it should be doing at least something though i think. I am actually very stumped. Usually with beer it starts bubbling almost immediately and this mead is completely static. I mean, there is absolutely nothing happening.
If anybody has input, I would be grateful.
I followed a basic recipe for ginger mead I had written down that I forgot the origins of, and 24 hours after pitching the yeast absolutely nothing has changed. Here is the recipe and steps I did:
8.5 lbs of wildflower honey
~4 oz of ginger
5 campden tablets
10 tspn acid blend
5 tsp super ferment (nutrient)
1 tsp grape tannins
71b-1122 dehydrated yeast
water to 5 gallons
1. mixed the all of the ingredients except yeast and let it sit for one day.
2. rehydrated the yeast for 15 minutes in water at about 100 F.
3. pitched yeast and aerated by shaking for about 5 minutes. temperature was about 65 F
4. overnight I used no airlock on the carboy, but this morning I put one on to see if anything was happening. so far no bubbling at all.
5. I re-aerated the mead this morning and raised the temperature some. still nothing at all.
The main difference I see is that I used a lot less honey than most, so maybe I should add more. The recipe i think was for a lighter, drier kind of product. Even if this is the problem, it should be doing at least something though i think. I am actually very stumped. Usually with beer it starts bubbling almost immediately and this mead is completely static. I mean, there is absolutely nothing happening.
If anybody has input, I would be grateful.