Ok, I've made several 1 gallon batches of JAO and this is my first attempt at a Show Mead as well as my first go at making a 5 gallon batch. I've been a home brewer for a while so sanitation is second nature and everything was washed with a powdered brewery wash and the sanitized with Iodophor before starting. Here's the recipe:
Show Mead
OG: 1.100
Temp at Pitch: 72 dF
Fermentation Chamber Temp: 68dF
Ingredients:
5 Lbs. Buckwheat Honey
8 Lbs. Wildflower Honey
Pasteur Blanc Champagne Yeast
3 tsp. Yeast Nutrients
Yeast Starter:
5 grams of yeast into 800ml of pre boiled and cooled water
2 ounces Wildflower Honey
1 tsp Yeast Nutrients
6 hours on the stir plate
Procedures:
Added filtered water to fermenter then added yeast nutrients.
Warmed honey, did not pasteurize it and added to water.
Mixed in honey with wire whisk
When all honey was added in and whisked up really well, pitched
Yeast and sealed up the bucket blow off tube in place.
3 weeks went by with no evidence of yeast activity. So I sanitized my air stone and plunged it into the must to add some O2 while I started another Yeast starter, this time I pitched 2, 5 gram packets. It's been 5 days since I pitched the second starter and I'm still seeing no activity in the Airlock. In fact I don't even see any evidence of any pressure in the bucket as the water level is even on both sides of the airlock. Planning to grab an SG when I get home and see if any activity has taken place. I'll post up with it, till them, thanks for taking a look and posting opinions.
Cheers,
RM
Show Mead
OG: 1.100
Temp at Pitch: 72 dF
Fermentation Chamber Temp: 68dF
Ingredients:
5 Lbs. Buckwheat Honey
8 Lbs. Wildflower Honey
Pasteur Blanc Champagne Yeast
3 tsp. Yeast Nutrients
Yeast Starter:
5 grams of yeast into 800ml of pre boiled and cooled water
2 ounces Wildflower Honey
1 tsp Yeast Nutrients
6 hours on the stir plate
Procedures:
Added filtered water to fermenter then added yeast nutrients.
Warmed honey, did not pasteurize it and added to water.
Mixed in honey with wire whisk
When all honey was added in and whisked up really well, pitched
Yeast and sealed up the bucket blow off tube in place.
3 weeks went by with no evidence of yeast activity. So I sanitized my air stone and plunged it into the must to add some O2 while I started another Yeast starter, this time I pitched 2, 5 gram packets. It's been 5 days since I pitched the second starter and I'm still seeing no activity in the Airlock. In fact I don't even see any evidence of any pressure in the bucket as the water level is even on both sides of the airlock. Planning to grab an SG when I get home and see if any activity has taken place. I'll post up with it, till them, thanks for taking a look and posting opinions.
Cheers,
RM