So I have made around 25 gallons of mead since I started on this adventure near the end of October. In that time I have been very busy learning but relied on other recipes or asked for help on the numbers piece. I have, for now, enough handle on process and ingredients that I'm now ready to learn how to do the math. Our there links or threads that can explain this piece?
I'd like to make something besides a JOAM that would stop fermenting before it runs dry. Everything taste so much different if it went dry in ferment and I'm thinking if they croaked before it went dry that process would leave better flavors of the original ingredients.
For instance... I don't know how to figure how many points a yeast should eat before they die from intoxication, in hopes of leaving some RS. I don't know what a FG might be if it started at X point, and used a yeast with X alcohol tolerance.
I'm not sure how to figure a SG when some of the sugars are still in the body of fruit rather than in liquid form. I don't know how to accommodate points when added when step feeding.
I expect, that for those who would be inclined to teach me these things, a real life example ( a story problem ) so to speak would be best. I would like that help but would like to have a chance to get some exposure in linear form prior to the "real life" lessons.
Thanks
I'd like to make something besides a JOAM that would stop fermenting before it runs dry. Everything taste so much different if it went dry in ferment and I'm thinking if they croaked before it went dry that process would leave better flavors of the original ingredients.
For instance... I don't know how to figure how many points a yeast should eat before they die from intoxication, in hopes of leaving some RS. I don't know what a FG might be if it started at X point, and used a yeast with X alcohol tolerance.
I'm not sure how to figure a SG when some of the sugars are still in the body of fruit rather than in liquid form. I don't know how to accommodate points when added when step feeding.
I expect, that for those who would be inclined to teach me these things, a real life example ( a story problem ) so to speak would be best. I would like that help but would like to have a chance to get some exposure in linear form prior to the "real life" lessons.
Thanks