Philip54321
New Member
Hello Forum users. I'm hoping you can give me some advice on my first batch of mead making.
I am a beekeeper and a month ago on 12 June I made a large batch of mead using honey I had harvested from my bee hives. I had enough for 3.5 x gallon demijohns.
I mixed the honey with water until I reached the correct starting gravity parameters and added brewers yeast (unfortunately I later found it was over a year past expiry date).
After 36 hours the airlocks were happily bubbling away- some batches faster than others. I left them alone and today, a month later checked the gravity again. Here are my results: #1 1.105-1.024, #2 1.107-1.088, #3 1.114-1.102, #4 1.104-1.094. It looks like only #1 has been behaving as it should and the others are slow. They are all still bubbling, but only slowly. Can you please give me some advice as to what I should do because it took a lot of time and effort to harvest the honey and make the mead and I would hate to have to throw it away. Thank you.
I am a beekeeper and a month ago on 12 June I made a large batch of mead using honey I had harvested from my bee hives. I had enough for 3.5 x gallon demijohns.
I mixed the honey with water until I reached the correct starting gravity parameters and added brewers yeast (unfortunately I later found it was over a year past expiry date).
After 36 hours the airlocks were happily bubbling away- some batches faster than others. I left them alone and today, a month later checked the gravity again. Here are my results: #1 1.105-1.024, #2 1.107-1.088, #3 1.114-1.102, #4 1.104-1.094. It looks like only #1 has been behaving as it should and the others are slow. They are all still bubbling, but only slowly. Can you please give me some advice as to what I should do because it took a lot of time and effort to harvest the honey and make the mead and I would hate to have to throw it away. Thank you.
). A few weeks in I had some unexpected guests arrive from out of town in the evening after the stores had closed so we decided to try the 'mead'... It was pretty good and we all got very trashed and consequently very hung-over when everyone awoke all over mine and my girlfriends apartments (in the same building) the next day. I went to the library and read up a bit and on the way home, stopped by a wine-making store and got some champagne yeast and let the next batch go longer......until the friends came back a couple months later...and when we all groggily awoke the next day, we agreed that it was much better, but could still use some work.
