Howdy folks-
My first try at mead started this evening- I learned... a lot. (quick aside- it was also the first time that I used a pump... or a plate chiller... there was water everywhere in the kitchen...)
In any case, I was in to the belgian IPA a bit too early, ended up adding an extra gallon of water (5g+honey instead of 4g+honey). So, I ended up with ~6 gallons of 1.065 must. I siphoned 1 gallon in to two .5 gallon growlers (don't know how active the fermentation will be), added a vanilla bean to one and a cinnamon stick to the other, a bung and airlock to each, and now I'm here.
So, do I add more honey to raise the og? What are the pros and cons?
Thanks for your expertise, all.
Recipe:
12# local honey
5g water
3g yeast ghost
6g Fermaid K
2tsp. yeast energizer
Yeast Starter
Yeast Starter Recipe:
120g honey
1200ml water
1/4 tsp bread yeast (added before boiling for 10min)
Wyeast 4184
Smacked the pack, 8hr later it went in to the starter
24 hr later, added the starter (whole thing- didn't have a lot of time to cold crash)
My first try at mead started this evening- I learned... a lot. (quick aside- it was also the first time that I used a pump... or a plate chiller... there was water everywhere in the kitchen...)
In any case, I was in to the belgian IPA a bit too early, ended up adding an extra gallon of water (5g+honey instead of 4g+honey). So, I ended up with ~6 gallons of 1.065 must. I siphoned 1 gallon in to two .5 gallon growlers (don't know how active the fermentation will be), added a vanilla bean to one and a cinnamon stick to the other, a bung and airlock to each, and now I'm here.
So, do I add more honey to raise the og? What are the pros and cons?
Thanks for your expertise, all.
Recipe:
12# local honey
5g water
3g yeast ghost
6g Fermaid K
2tsp. yeast energizer
Yeast Starter
Yeast Starter Recipe:
120g honey
1200ml water
1/4 tsp bread yeast (added before boiling for 10min)
Wyeast 4184
Smacked the pack, 8hr later it went in to the starter
24 hr later, added the starter (whole thing- didn't have a lot of time to cold crash)