This is my first mead.
Recipe
Boiled: roughly 1 gallon of water (4 liters)
Steeped: 1/2 cup of jasmine tea
: 1 tsp of cinnamon
: 4 oz of orange peel
Took of heat
Added: 5.5 lbs of honey
Poured into 1 gallon carboy (1 liter extra)
OG = 1.140
Added: Lalvin D47 (max 14%)
Didn’t have yeast nutrients so I order online.
Made bread yeast, added raisins, and then boiled: (as a substitute yeast nutrient)
Added to carboy two days later.
It is bubbling nicely. ( smells pleasant not like rotten eggs i.e. H2S)
I figured it should have a FG = 1.033
Should I add ec1118 yeast to get the FG closer to 1.00
Or
Should I leave it?
Also I am planing on putting some type of oak and cherry pits into later racking any suggestions on quantity?
The goal for me is to have something to drink with my wife. Sadly she is allergic to hops so beer is out and she prefers sweet wines over dry. I just don’t want something that is sickeningly sweet.
Recipe
Boiled: roughly 1 gallon of water (4 liters)
Steeped: 1/2 cup of jasmine tea
: 1 tsp of cinnamon
: 4 oz of orange peel
Took of heat
Added: 5.5 lbs of honey
Poured into 1 gallon carboy (1 liter extra)
OG = 1.140
Added: Lalvin D47 (max 14%)
Didn’t have yeast nutrients so I order online.
Made bread yeast, added raisins, and then boiled: (as a substitute yeast nutrient)
Added to carboy two days later.
It is bubbling nicely. ( smells pleasant not like rotten eggs i.e. H2S)
I figured it should have a FG = 1.033
Should I add ec1118 yeast to get the FG closer to 1.00
Or
Should I leave it?
Also I am planing on putting some type of oak and cherry pits into later racking any suggestions on quantity?
The goal for me is to have something to drink with my wife. Sadly she is allergic to hops so beer is out and she prefers sweet wines over dry. I just don’t want something that is sickeningly sweet.