AKunamatata
New Member
Hello, new member, first post.
I'm pretty new to brewing, and after a successful beer batch I decided to try some mead. I used a bead-yeast recipe that called for a 2-4 week primary fermentation. Anyway, I bottled the mead in mason jars after 3 weeks.
Now, 4 days later the mead is carbonating like crazy. A quick google search informed me that I've made the common noob mistake of bottling the mead too early, so the mead is still fermenting and releasing C02/Alcohol.
So, my question is how do I recover from this juncture?
The three options I see are:
-Get the mead back into the primary and wait another week or two then try again.
-Keep the mead in the mason jars, bleeding the excess gas out of the jars in order to prevent explosions.
-Dump it all out and try again.
I really don't want to lose the batch since my taste test when bottling was amazing, but I also don't want to do anything unsafe. Let me know what you guys think.
I'm pretty new to brewing, and after a successful beer batch I decided to try some mead. I used a bead-yeast recipe that called for a 2-4 week primary fermentation. Anyway, I bottled the mead in mason jars after 3 weeks.
Now, 4 days later the mead is carbonating like crazy. A quick google search informed me that I've made the common noob mistake of bottling the mead too early, so the mead is still fermenting and releasing C02/Alcohol.
So, my question is how do I recover from this juncture?
The three options I see are:
-Get the mead back into the primary and wait another week or two then try again.
-Keep the mead in the mason jars, bleeding the excess gas out of the jars in order to prevent explosions.
-Dump it all out and try again.
I really don't want to lose the batch since my taste test when bottling was amazing, but I also don't want to do anything unsafe. Let me know what you guys think.