Search results

So, anyone have any suggestions about what I should do now? I haven't seen any bubbling from the airlock in at least a week, if not more. I've added more yeast nutrient, Wyeast to be exact, no apparent fermentation, as well as leveled off the pH to around 4-5 in each batch. My orange mead is...

SG was pretty much exactly 1.000, maybe SLIGHTLY below.

OK, I just took hydrometer readings from all the batches and something is wrong. Either I screwed up the readings (all of them), or all four batches are bad. Each of them read 1.0, so I am at a complete loss here. Any ideas? Suggestions? Or is my mead dead and do I need to just start over...

I didn't add more than 3 or 4 cloves to each batch. Well, I still have a few packets of 1118, but yeast is pretty inexpensive, and I found a bunch of places on Amazon and eBay that sell lots of 10 packets of K1-V1116. I guess I can try that the next time I attempt to brew some mead.

OK, here are the recipes: Apple spice 1 gallon: 1/4 gallon unfiltered not from concentrate apple juice 3/4 gallon filtered water 3.5 lbs. honey Cinnamon Sprinkle of whole cloves pinch of allspice pinch of nutmeg Lalvin EC 1118 yeast Pectic enzyme in the apple juice Yeast nutrient 25 raisins...

Thanks for your replies. I purchased some Wyeast nutrient and I am going to add it to the batches tomorrow, hopefully that will kick start some of the fermenting again. I also should be getting my pH test strips tomorrow, so I'll take readings on all of them and see what the levels are...

Hello all! First, let me start by introducing myself. My name is Storm, and I'm from New York. I've always wanted to try my hand at brewing, and just started recently (like within the past month I've been getting together all my equipment). I recently put up four batches of mead (my first...