MikePGS
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I used the recipe for Joe's Simple Grape Mead, but instead of using the straight up Grape Juice, I used Welch's White Grape/Cherry Juice. Additionally I did not use the oz of buckwheat honey the recipe calls for but rather just the clover honey. It took a bit longer than I had expected (based on the recipe) but after five or six weeks I racked it onto the secondary. However instead of being at 1.000 it was at 1.01, so it hadn't fully fermented out. I'm curious as to what may have caused this. Did not using the buckwheat not give it sufficient nutrients to ferment in the timeframe that I had expected, or should I have just not paid any mind to what the recipe said in regards to fermentation time? Also I bottled it last night and I was very surprised, it's pretty tasty though I think for some it might be a bit too sweet.