tooomanycolors
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Ok so it seems like more and more often I see a post with a title similar to "Help did I ruin my mead?" And in said threads often it says I made this mead last night, two days ago, etc., I understand that this may be an issue with the beer variety of beverage making but with mead a fermentation may not begin with vigor for a few days. It doesnt matter what the package for your yeast says, ie will start in 15hrs, it doesnt matter. As much as I like to deny it a fermentation is a sciency process, reliant on nutrient, oxygen, pH, and probably some other things, personally I think my apt is blessed by yeast gods and Ive gotten some 1.100+ meads started without nutrients and they are fine.
So if your mead isnt bubbling like a flute of champagne in 20minutes, calm down wait at least 3-4 days then post and remember to show what your recipe and process was. If you post a picture like the one recently done, a layer of separation between dark and light is most likely honey separating out of solution, this is not a big deal just let it go and the little yeastys will get it, theyre cool like that.
Next issue, if you want a recipe for something do a search, look in the mead threads, look in the recipe section, or modify an existing recipe for something. Then once you have a recipe post it if you want, ask for input. In the last 4 days there have been at least 3 posts of strawberry melomels, great guys for posting your recipes but some of these are also requests for recipes... If you have a question on a recipe ask, but first post what you are thinking, ie BK's root beer mead or my triple and lambic recipes. The idea for my 2 braggots came after a couple months of solicting ideas because frankly I couldnt find any trace of someone doing a lambic mead before, but I never asked for a lambic mead recipe.
This is perhaps my biggest problem with some of the posts, and this one comes from certain "I started a mead" threads. You do not, repeat do not, and one more time do not need to boil honey. If it is completely raw great dont heat it, the wax and other goofy **** will fall out during fermenation, it wont do anything bad to you. You can heat your water to ~150F and dissolve you honey of you can say screw it and use cold water and mix the **** out of it, but dont boil the honey. Honey is a delicate substance and heat turns it into nothing better then freaking corn syrup, so moral of the story DONT BOIL HONEY
One last thing, if you dont like this then respond, I dont care, I can take it. If you agree then say so, if you want to add something then add it.
Think of this as a free thread to vent on anything mead forum related, except for my lack of updates on the lambic
So if your mead isnt bubbling like a flute of champagne in 20minutes, calm down wait at least 3-4 days then post and remember to show what your recipe and process was. If you post a picture like the one recently done, a layer of separation between dark and light is most likely honey separating out of solution, this is not a big deal just let it go and the little yeastys will get it, theyre cool like that.
Next issue, if you want a recipe for something do a search, look in the mead threads, look in the recipe section, or modify an existing recipe for something. Then once you have a recipe post it if you want, ask for input. In the last 4 days there have been at least 3 posts of strawberry melomels, great guys for posting your recipes but some of these are also requests for recipes... If you have a question on a recipe ask, but first post what you are thinking, ie BK's root beer mead or my triple and lambic recipes. The idea for my 2 braggots came after a couple months of solicting ideas because frankly I couldnt find any trace of someone doing a lambic mead before, but I never asked for a lambic mead recipe.
This is perhaps my biggest problem with some of the posts, and this one comes from certain "I started a mead" threads. You do not, repeat do not, and one more time do not need to boil honey. If it is completely raw great dont heat it, the wax and other goofy **** will fall out during fermenation, it wont do anything bad to you. You can heat your water to ~150F and dissolve you honey of you can say screw it and use cold water and mix the **** out of it, but dont boil the honey. Honey is a delicate substance and heat turns it into nothing better then freaking corn syrup, so moral of the story DONT BOIL HONEY
One last thing, if you dont like this then respond, I dont care, I can take it. If you agree then say so, if you want to add something then add it.
Think of this as a free thread to vent on anything mead forum related, except for my lack of updates on the lambic