Ceedubya
Well-Known Member
So I think I am ready to get underway with my first mead with the 14 1/2 pounds of honey that my mother showed up with a few months back.
Anyway, I know you guys get tired of the noobs asking the same old questions, buuuuuuuut...........
I told the guy at the LHBS that i was making my first mead and to hook me up with everything I needed. at the time, my thought was to make one 5 gallon batch and end with a simple dry mead for new years.
I may want to rack into smaller batches on top of fruit when ready for secondary though, I havn't completely decided, but I guess I have time.
Anyway, this is what he gave me for my 14.5 pounds of honey, to make a 5 gallon batch: 2 oz tartaric acid, 2 oz malic acid, 2 oz wine tannin, 2 oz diammonium phosphate (energizer), a bunch of camden crush tablets, and one pkg of red star premier cuvee dry wine yeast.
I just finished reading the mead sticky, and the basic mead article and I see I am missing the yeast nutrients.
the directions that I recieved from him were:
1. to dissolve the honey with the warm watter and the acid and tannin
2. add top up water and all other ingredients except the yeast
3. cover and set for 24 hrs
4. add yeast
5. stir daily and check SG
6. Siphon into a carboy when SG reads 1.040
7. sihon again into secondary when SG reads 1.000
8. age accordingly
Will this get me there, or do I need the yeast nutrients? Is there a good source that I can order these from online (the LHBS is 90 miles away)??
I wanted to get this done tonight, but don't want to start if its not gonna work.
What do you think?
Oh, and I am making this yeast for next new years, so it will have 11 months to go.
Anyway, I know you guys get tired of the noobs asking the same old questions, buuuuuuuut...........
I told the guy at the LHBS that i was making my first mead and to hook me up with everything I needed. at the time, my thought was to make one 5 gallon batch and end with a simple dry mead for new years.
I may want to rack into smaller batches on top of fruit when ready for secondary though, I havn't completely decided, but I guess I have time.
Anyway, this is what he gave me for my 14.5 pounds of honey, to make a 5 gallon batch: 2 oz tartaric acid, 2 oz malic acid, 2 oz wine tannin, 2 oz diammonium phosphate (energizer), a bunch of camden crush tablets, and one pkg of red star premier cuvee dry wine yeast.
I just finished reading the mead sticky, and the basic mead article and I see I am missing the yeast nutrients.
the directions that I recieved from him were:
1. to dissolve the honey with the warm watter and the acid and tannin
2. add top up water and all other ingredients except the yeast
3. cover and set for 24 hrs
4. add yeast
5. stir daily and check SG
6. Siphon into a carboy when SG reads 1.040
7. sihon again into secondary when SG reads 1.000
8. age accordingly
Will this get me there, or do I need the yeast nutrients? Is there a good source that I can order these from online (the LHBS is 90 miles away)??
I wanted to get this done tonight, but don't want to start if its not gonna work.
What do you think?
Oh, and I am making this yeast for next new years, so it will have 11 months to go.