Too much energizer

About a month into my orange spice mead I realized when looking over my notes that I used a full teaspoon of nutrient and energizer for my gallon batch of mead. I've only made 5 gallon batches in the past and I forgot to reduce that part of the recipe.... Will there be any consequences for this? Should I scrap now and start over?

How did the ferment go? I'd think that if it were going to cause complications it would have been in the begining. I wouldn't scrap it, never know a nutrient measuring mistake may turn into an amazing tasting mead and become a standard practice.

yourbartender said:

About a month into my orange spice mead I realized when looking over my notes that I used a full teaspoon of nutrient and energizer for my gallon batch of mead. I've only made 5 gallon batches in the past and I forgot to reduce that part of the recipe.... Will there be any consequences for this? Should I scrap now and start over?

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A teaspoon of nutrient and a teaspoon of energiser ? or 1 teaspoon of both total ?

As for dumping it ? No, only a fool thinks of the drain first. That should be the very last option (and I don't even consider it then). At most, there might be some minor flavour/taste issues, so just let it run it's course, then if there's any problem, just use it for topping up to reduce airspace from racking losses in other batches - any flavour/taste issue is diluted down very quickly.

If it finishes fermenting and there's still some energizer suspended in the mead, you might be able to precipitate it out with finings and/or cold crashing.