Harguf
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Maybe this question is better suited for the bottling forum instead of the mead forum.
I've done some beer brewing, but recently I've gotten into mead. I bottled my first batch after letting it sit in the secondary fermenter for a month and not seeing anymore fermentation.
20+ corked bottles later I put them out in the cold garage and forget about them for a couple of months.
Last week I go out there thinking I might pop one open and see how it tastes. I notice though a thin layer of lees in each bottle.
Obviously I bottled the mead too soon. I should have racked it a few more times. Should I pop the bottles and rack them into a carboy or maybe another set of botttles? There was no built up air pressure in the one bottle I popped, so I don't think there's any fermentation still going on. The mead is super clear. I can read through the dark amber liquid.
Thanks. I got a good suggestion from the mead forum that I should take another FG reading. I'll do that tomorrow.
I've done some beer brewing, but recently I've gotten into mead. I bottled my first batch after letting it sit in the secondary fermenter for a month and not seeing anymore fermentation.
20+ corked bottles later I put them out in the cold garage and forget about them for a couple of months.
Last week I go out there thinking I might pop one open and see how it tastes. I notice though a thin layer of lees in each bottle.
Obviously I bottled the mead too soon. I should have racked it a few more times. Should I pop the bottles and rack them into a carboy or maybe another set of botttles? There was no built up air pressure in the one bottle I popped, so I don't think there's any fermentation still going on. The mead is super clear. I can read through the dark amber liquid.
Thanks. I got a good suggestion from the mead forum that I should take another FG reading. I'll do that tomorrow.
