DRxAndy
Member
So i've only made 2 wines involving honey, but I have a gallon of cherry melomel with 3lbs of honey in it that has been sitting in primary for aprox 10 days.
From other winemaking I was thinking 2 weeks would be a good time to rack to secondary but decided to research and found some threads where people said they left mead in primary for 2 months for better results.
How long should mead be in the primary?
What would be the longest/best amount of time for maximum efficiency?
Is it based on the amount of honey used(guessing it could)?
Is mead ever racked a 3rd time (perhaps for aeration?) and if so how long would be appropriate for that?
I aerated the business out of this batch in a blender before putting in primary and adding yeast, and have been swirling its jug about twice a day (resulting in a large amount of bubbling from the blowoff) and it seems to be fermenting consistently but slow as i expected.
From other winemaking I was thinking 2 weeks would be a good time to rack to secondary but decided to research and found some threads where people said they left mead in primary for 2 months for better results.
How long should mead be in the primary?
What would be the longest/best amount of time for maximum efficiency?
Is it based on the amount of honey used(guessing it could)?
Is mead ever racked a 3rd time (perhaps for aeration?) and if so how long would be appropriate for that?
I aerated the business out of this batch in a blender before putting in primary and adding yeast, and have been swirling its jug about twice a day (resulting in a large amount of bubbling from the blowoff) and it seems to be fermenting consistently but slow as i expected.