Its my first batch of honey mead ever, ive made some traditional finnish mead a couple of times (water, brown sugar,lemons and yeast) which obviously tastes nothing like this but the honey mead so far tastes quite horrid to be honest and I dont know what I did wrong or maybe it should taste like this and I just dont like it.
The recipe:
-6.6 gal of tapwater, boiled
-6.6 pounds of honey, three different kinds from the local supermarket
-2 pounds of strawberries
-Baking yeast according to instructions on the bag for mead
I obviously didnt use the greatest ingredients because this is my first batch ever and I just wanted to test it. Its been fermenting for two weeks now and i took the chopped strawberries out a couple of days ago and had a taste and it tastes somewhat of a combination of beer and white wine and I definetly dont like it (should mead taste anything like this??).
The taste sample couldnt have had any lees on it so thats not it. I also didnt really sanitise the fermenting bucket according to instructions, i didnt have any bleach at the time so I scrubbed it with water and dish soap and thoroughly rinsed it after.
For what I know there are two reasons for this:
-I dont know where I pulled the amount of honey at the time but after researching common recipes a bit my recipe seems to make like SUPER DUPER DRY mead, so maybe thats it, could back sweetening still save the batch?
-Not sanitising correctly and the mead is now contaminated
Id like to hear some opinions from some more experienced brewers and also should I even continue the current batch since I dont like the taste or if it really is contaminated...
The recipe:
-6.6 gal of tapwater, boiled
-6.6 pounds of honey, three different kinds from the local supermarket
-2 pounds of strawberries
-Baking yeast according to instructions on the bag for mead
I obviously didnt use the greatest ingredients because this is my first batch ever and I just wanted to test it. Its been fermenting for two weeks now and i took the chopped strawberries out a couple of days ago and had a taste and it tastes somewhat of a combination of beer and white wine and I definetly dont like it (should mead taste anything like this??).
The taste sample couldnt have had any lees on it so thats not it. I also didnt really sanitise the fermenting bucket according to instructions, i didnt have any bleach at the time so I scrubbed it with water and dish soap and thoroughly rinsed it after.
For what I know there are two reasons for this:
-I dont know where I pulled the amount of honey at the time but after researching common recipes a bit my recipe seems to make like SUPER DUPER DRY mead, so maybe thats it, could back sweetening still save the batch?
-Not sanitising correctly and the mead is now contaminated
Id like to hear some opinions from some more experienced brewers and also should I even continue the current batch since I dont like the taste or if it really is contaminated...