Hi,
I have a problem with my strawberry melomel.
I aimed for something with a very light strawberry taste, light honey, oaked and just sweetened a bit (to FG 1.010 or something like that).
This is what happend: :angryfire:
I made a 10 Liters batch with the following ingrediences:
* 3 kg Accacia honey (very light in flavour) (so OG was about 1.100)
* 500 grams fresh chopped strawberries
* 1 pack of mead-yeast (for dry mead) from Wyest.
1)I racked to secondary too early (when SG was 1.025).
2) The fermenation stopped totally and never re-started again
3) I bought some kind of "re-starter" or unknown brand in my not-so-very-serious-party/homebrew store.
4) I pitched this and the fermenatation re-started very quickly
5) FG was down to 1.000 and I tasted: No strawberry flavour at all, and a somewhat gasoline-kind of of-flavour tast as well. Not nice at all. I did some research of the re-started yeast I bought and it turnes out that this was some kind of turbo-yeast.
So perhaps not surprising that I have the off-flavour, but I would not think that only the fermentation from 1-025 to 1.000 could make such a big difference with a crappy yeast.
Now the question: What to do with this mead to save it somehow? Will it get better with age, should I sweeten it up to mask the taste, add more strawberries. Does anyone have any suggestion have to save this batch to something drinkable (or even tasty)? I realise it will not be a prize winner this one... :BangHead:
/Andy
I have a problem with my strawberry melomel.
I aimed for something with a very light strawberry taste, light honey, oaked and just sweetened a bit (to FG 1.010 or something like that).
This is what happend: :angryfire:
I made a 10 Liters batch with the following ingrediences:
* 3 kg Accacia honey (very light in flavour) (so OG was about 1.100)
* 500 grams fresh chopped strawberries
* 1 pack of mead-yeast (for dry mead) from Wyest.
1)I racked to secondary too early (when SG was 1.025).
2) The fermenation stopped totally and never re-started again
3) I bought some kind of "re-starter" or unknown brand in my not-so-very-serious-party/homebrew store.
4) I pitched this and the fermenatation re-started very quickly
5) FG was down to 1.000 and I tasted: No strawberry flavour at all, and a somewhat gasoline-kind of of-flavour tast as well. Not nice at all. I did some research of the re-started yeast I bought and it turnes out that this was some kind of turbo-yeast.
So perhaps not surprising that I have the off-flavour, but I would not think that only the fermentation from 1-025 to 1.000 could make such a big difference with a crappy yeast.
Now the question: What to do with this mead to save it somehow? Will it get better with age, should I sweeten it up to mask the taste, add more strawberries. Does anyone have any suggestion have to save this batch to something drinkable (or even tasty)? I realise it will not be a prize winner this one... :BangHead:
/Andy