thelusiv
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How much head space should I leave in my fermentation vessels for making mead? I know with beer I should have about 1/5 of the batch volume of space to leave room for kräusen even with a blowoff tube. I've read a lot about mead making but haven't a good idea of how much, if any, kräusen is produced during the early stages of fermentation.
I plan to make 2 gallons of sweet mead in growlers for my first batch of mead. I will put 1 gallon of plain sweet mead in my 1 gallon growler, and then split another gallon between two half-gallon growlers, adding spices to one and fresh fruit to the other. Thus I hope to try out sweet mead, pyment and metheglin all in one small batch.
Since I'm using smaller fermentation vessels, I want to make sure that I leave ample head space, and don't end up losing a significant amount of mead through a blowoff tube, weakening the end product, and throwing off my gravity measurements.
I plan to make 2 gallons of sweet mead in growlers for my first batch of mead. I will put 1 gallon of plain sweet mead in my 1 gallon growler, and then split another gallon between two half-gallon growlers, adding spices to one and fresh fruit to the other. Thus I hope to try out sweet mead, pyment and metheglin all in one small batch.
Since I'm using smaller fermentation vessels, I want to make sure that I leave ample head space, and don't end up losing a significant amount of mead through a blowoff tube, weakening the end product, and throwing off my gravity measurements.