spark_plug
Well-Known Member
So deciding to try my hand at mead making. I thought a Pineapple/Apple combo would turn out quite nice. I read a lot of people saying that 4184 got stuck easily, but it seems I had a different experience.
My recipe is as follows.
2 gallons of Pineapple juice
2 Gallons of Pure apple juice
9lbs of unpasteurized wild flower honey
Heated up around a gallon +/- of water to dissolve my honey (topped up to 5Gal with juice)
5tbsp of Nutrient
2tbsp of energizer
Wyeast 4184 sweet mead.
Now from wyeast labs website, they claim it will give me 11% abv and 2-3% residual sugars remaining.
My OG was 1.100 so I prepped my yeast prior, and tossed in my nutrient and energizer whipped it up, and pitched my yeast. Within 24hrs it was fermenting hard, had super foam action, and the temps of the must stayed consistently 2 degrees above the room temperature. I was impressed, so I thought after a week I will add more nutrient and energizer. So at day 7 it had fizzed down and I put more in. 3 days later it was still doing nothing. So I checked my gravity, and sure enough it was 1.010. So should it have chewed through that much honey that quickly? My beers that I add honey to, seem to take a long time to get through just a couple lbs of honey.
Is this normal for 4184 to work that quickly?
My recipe is as follows.
2 gallons of Pineapple juice
2 Gallons of Pure apple juice
9lbs of unpasteurized wild flower honey
Heated up around a gallon +/- of water to dissolve my honey (topped up to 5Gal with juice)
5tbsp of Nutrient
2tbsp of energizer
Wyeast 4184 sweet mead.
Now from wyeast labs website, they claim it will give me 11% abv and 2-3% residual sugars remaining.
My OG was 1.100 so I prepped my yeast prior, and tossed in my nutrient and energizer whipped it up, and pitched my yeast. Within 24hrs it was fermenting hard, had super foam action, and the temps of the must stayed consistently 2 degrees above the room temperature. I was impressed, so I thought after a week I will add more nutrient and energizer. So at day 7 it had fizzed down and I put more in. 3 days later it was still doing nothing. So I checked my gravity, and sure enough it was 1.010. So should it have chewed through that much honey that quickly? My beers that I add honey to, seem to take a long time to get through just a couple lbs of honey.
Is this normal for 4184 to work that quickly?
