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Hi all!

About a month and half ago I made a little batch of mead, I didnt pasteurize the honey, only warmed up a little to make it more fluid, I added the honey, the water and the yeast nutrients in a jug, shaked like hell for about 10 minutes and then pitched the yeast. By the end of the 3rd week of fermentation there was almost no airlock activity so I racked it in 2 smaller bottles.

This photos were taken a week after the racking last week.
http://imgur.com/ztsHtRK
http://imgur.com/Qc8uPyU
http://imgur.com/WdOBxB5

There is this kind of dust at the top of the mead and if I shake the bottle a little, it sinks and then it goes up again.

I used
2.20 lbs of raw sulla honey
1.10 lbs of raw wildflower honey
0.66 lbs of raw acacia honey
2 teaspoons of yeast nutrients
1 pack wyeast sweet mead
water till 1.29 gal

sorry for the weird numbers but they're converted from metric ones! :)
 
Chevette Girl

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Yep, I get that with a lot of my batches. Welcome to the forum, where are you from that you use Metric? Europe, I'm guessing after googling Sulla honey (honeysuckle? Mmm!)
 
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baltar

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Good!
I'm writing from Italy, sulla honey is relatively similar to acacia honey in color and taste.
Thanks for the replies. :)
 
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Don't worry about using metric in listing your recipes we have plenty of Europeans on here and we Canadians use it also. I went to school when we switched over from standard and we learned both metric and standard measurements simultaneously and along with being in the construction industry 30 years I can now fairly accurately convert measurements in my head.
 
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Honeyhog said:
Don't worry about using metric in listing your recipes we have plenty of Europeans on here and we Canadians use it also. I went to school when we switched over from standard and we learned both metric and standard measurements simultaneously and along with being in the construction industry 30 years I can now fairly accurately convert measurements in my head.
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I remember we started doing it when I was in grade school in NYC but then we went, "meh" and just kept using feet and gallons.
 
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baltar

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Well, that's good to know, hoping that I will not need to write in this part of the forum next time! :)
And now I'll go looking for some apple cyser recipe.
 
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mannye said:
I remember we started doing it when I was in grade school in NYC but then we went, "meh" and just kept using feet and gallons.
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Yeah, remember all the talk in the mid to late 70s about the metric system taking over? The km/hr conversion on the speedometer and all that?

A corollary of something Keith Olberman said: "The metric system is the U.S. measuring system of the future... and always will be.". ;)

-joe
 
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