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I got inspired by this and made a 20 L batch yesterday with 5 kg of sultana raisins and no sugar. The total amount of sugars in the raisins is ~3.5 kg, estimated from the nutrition label, giving me a potential abv. of 9% max if all sugars were fermented. What I did is to soak the raisins in a...

Found it while taking a reading tonight, I was looking 10 points of scale, in the red zone. Now that I think of it, it's not the first time I do that, rotfl. So, the real starting SG was 1.066. Sorry about that :o I'm still starting another batch with 3 kg tomorrow. I'll raise the water...

Sorry, I meant 20 L of liquids total, in which there's 4 kg of honey. That's in a 25 L bucket. That mix gave me a 1.079 reading. I added about 1,5 L of water and the SG dropped to 1.076. The honey was first dissolved in 10 L of water at ~55°C. That worked quite well, I would eliminate...

Hi hightest :) It's 4 kg honey in 20 L (8,82 lbs in 5,28 gal). I multiplied the honey weight by 0,80 and used the formula for sucrose, getting an estimated gravity of 1.061 originally. Maybe that honey has a very little or no water in it, which would match the gravity reading? Or there's...

I doubt it will foam profusely at that temperature. Just a guess.

Hi Kauai_Kahuna, I prefer dry wine myself, my guess is this is going to please me as is, i.e. clover honey and raisins ;) A little headsup, I just mixed my mead and the SG is 1.079, much higher than anticipated. Actually, if had used the same amount of sucrose in weight, that wouldn't even...

K1V-1116 and EC-1118 fermenting ranges start at 50°F.

Hi, thanks for the reply :) I'll follow your advice and skip the peaches. Mead recipes I found online call for more honey, I was worried this low abv experiment would end up bland without adding fruits to the secondary. But without it'll be easier to make out and hopefully acquire the taste...

Hello everybody! :D I have fermented fruits/fruit juices before, but never honey. For my first mead I'd like to aim low, hoping to shorten aging, and compensate the possible lack of body with raisins, and peaches, cause I love 'em. I want to make a 5 gal batch with 8 lbs of clover honey...