Recent content by Tropical Mead

I am letting them cold crash since some of the lees got transferred while racking them. I use a manual siphon, not an automatic one. I am planning to buy an auto but in the meantime. It's sitting in the fridge being chilled and then I will pasteurize it. The Vikings blood I also racked to...

Today I finished my Vikings Blood mead, Traditional and Cyser Vikings blood was 3 pounds of Members mark honey and 2lbs of sweet cherries and k1v-116 yeast. (1 Gallon ) Traditional: 2.5lbs of local wildflower honey and D47 yeast ( 1 Gallon ) Cyser 1- 1.5lbs of honey, Mott's apple juice...

I just did that I am going to leave it over night and get some gravity readings once my sanitizer arrives. I didn't take a reading when I first mixed everything but hopefully, it turns out good!

UPDATE 2 It seems that fermentation has slowed down a fair bit. It's day 4 it's not bubbling as much and it seems less active. It's been in the high 80-90's this week. I've tried keeping it in a cool corner covered with a towel. I didn't take a reading since I don't have a hydrometer. Will be...

I degassed it till the foaming stopped before adding the yeast nutrients and only very little overflow. Thankfully the insane foaming stopped. I have some more nutrients that I am planning to add. Fermentation seems to be going well.

Update 1 After a couple of hours, it started overflowing from my airlock and onto the floor. It has seemed to slow down a bit but what I am guessing is the yeast?! I did remove the airlock and dumped out some excess. I don't know if that was the correct procedure. It seems to have calmed down...

The yeast was stored in a plastic bag inside a box. The room always has a fan on. Over here Central A/C isn't a thing so the best I could do is put my shop blower on it to keep it cool. I have some lalvin k1-v1116 arriving later this month and some regular baking yeast at home if it would work...

Super excited to be joining the Home Brew community. I will focus primarily on Mead because I am a Skyrim nerd but I am open to brewing other types of alcohol in the future. I hope I can get along with everyone.

Super excited to be making my first mead. Everything was going well and I forgot to take the funnel off before adding the yeast and it just sort of clumped and fell to the bottom. The yeast has a very strong flavor. I'd describe it as kind of rancid. We are facing a massive heat wave with...