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Anyone know why my blackbriar mead might have gotten carbonated? I opened a bottle and it foamed. Nothing major, nothing explosive or gushy but there are definitely bubbles as if I carbonated it. The recipe was 2.5 lbs honey, 1 gallon water, cloves, cinnamon stick, rosehips and blackberries, I used lalbrew premium series ale yeast and it's also one of the first meads I made, started fermentation on 10/02/20 and bottled 12/05/21 after seeing an FG of 1.010 (10% ABV) twice with a week between readings. It started at 1.085. It was in fermentation for 3 months with almost no activity, still in the bottle (until now). Nothing added in secondary. I brought three bottles home after bottling, temperature here is about the same as it is in my apartment, so they only spent maybe 3-4 hours at whatever temperature my car was while traveling.
I don't mind that it's carbonated (it's not carbonated much) and in fact I might purposely carbonate the next batch, but I don't really get why it carbonated. Was it perhaps stuck and I didn't recognize it?
I will say being one of my first meads, I didn't follow a lot of best practices, or add nutrients since I didn't know about it at the time, it was a very slow ferment.
I don't mind that it's carbonated (it's not carbonated much) and in fact I might purposely carbonate the next batch, but I don't really get why it carbonated. Was it perhaps stuck and I didn't recognize it?
I will say being one of my first meads, I didn't follow a lot of best practices, or add nutrients since I didn't know about it at the time, it was a very slow ferment.