bikerverde
Member
Hi. I'm new to brewing and to this forum and I can really use some advice.
Yesterday I and a friend bought our first Mead Brewing kit. It came with instructions that we read over and over and we thought we understood it well enough, but at the end of the day we think we messed up bad.
here are the instructions we used: http://morebeer.com/public/pdf/wmead.pdf
1. When we where doing to Go-Ferm soak with the liquid yeast my friend didn't use distilled water.
2. We used 5 gallons of water instead of 4 gallons. My reasoning was since we where making 5 gallons of mead we need 5 gallons of water. I didn't take into account the honey would add extra volume.
3. We didn't put water in the airlock. When we where done mixing and everything we let it set over night and there are no signs of foaming or fermentation.
So at this point should we throw it out or is there any way of salvaging it?
Yesterday I and a friend bought our first Mead Brewing kit. It came with instructions that we read over and over and we thought we understood it well enough, but at the end of the day we think we messed up bad.
here are the instructions we used: http://morebeer.com/public/pdf/wmead.pdf
1. When we where doing to Go-Ferm soak with the liquid yeast my friend didn't use distilled water.
2. We used 5 gallons of water instead of 4 gallons. My reasoning was since we where making 5 gallons of mead we need 5 gallons of water. I didn't take into account the honey would add extra volume.
3. We didn't put water in the airlock. When we where done mixing and everything we let it set over night and there are no signs of foaming or fermentation.
So at this point should we throw it out or is there any way of salvaging it?