groundling
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Hey,
I want to run something by you folks before I make an expensive mistake. I've got a three gallon cherry vanilla mead going right now. Started it in a six gallon bucket. After a couple of weeks I moved it to a 3 gallon carboy.
A month later and it's still bubbling, albeit quite slowly. The lees have been building up for a while and I think it may be time to transfer it off the lees.
My thought is to carefully transfer it to a 5 gallon bucket, clean the 3 gallon carboy then put it back in the glass carboy to age another month or so. I would of course be careful to add as little oxygen as possible with the transfer.
The other option is to wait up to another two weeks till it stops bubbling, then bottle it.
What do you think?
I want to run something by you folks before I make an expensive mistake. I've got a three gallon cherry vanilla mead going right now. Started it in a six gallon bucket. After a couple of weeks I moved it to a 3 gallon carboy.
A month later and it's still bubbling, albeit quite slowly. The lees have been building up for a while and I think it may be time to transfer it off the lees.
My thought is to carefully transfer it to a 5 gallon bucket, clean the 3 gallon carboy then put it back in the glass carboy to age another month or so. I would of course be careful to add as little oxygen as possible with the transfer.
The other option is to wait up to another two weeks till it stops bubbling, then bottle it.
What do you think?