Hydro reading on jaom

1.00 after 1 month what should it be cause my hydro is saying 0 abv

 

what was your original reading before fermentation?

 

1.086 according to mead calc

 

1.00 is realistic. there's nothing but fermentables in it. If it's really strong, it'll even dip below 1 as alcohol is less dense than water. The key is has it changed in the last few days? Are you going to age it, and how long?

 

Well if you've made a JAOM according to the recipe........

Something is wrong......

A JAO would normally have been about the 1.125 to 1.135 area. Using bread yeast it would drop to about 1.025 to 1.035

Oh and those piss poor multi scale hydrometers can be a pain. With gravity reading you're looking at drops toward 1.000 but with the ABV scale its telling you how much its got left to make so if it gave you 1.133 on the gravity scale it would say 18% on the ABV scale.

Once fermentation is complete it would show 1.000 on the gravity scale and 0% on the ABV scale.

Hence if you got 1.000 for a JAOM then you've messed up and either not used enough honey or you've used wine yeast. The presence of a whole orange means it'll likely be bitter as hell as there's no residual sugars to balance the orange pith bitterness.

Oh and a benchmark JAOM would be sweet but also about 12% ABV

 

Thx all and yep I messed up and used wine yeast thinkin it would be ok oh well ok live and learn . Tasted it And its bitter might still drink it after age a while. I have a sweet mead going 4 lbs to 1 gal. And a cyser thanks for your help

 

All is not lost........

Stabilise with sulphites (probably crushed campden tablets 1 per gallon) and sorbate (whatever the pack recommends), then just back sweeten to about 1.025 using honey and water mixed 50/50. Just add a little at a time until you get it sweet enough to balance which should be about the 1.025 mark........

 

And to get this right 3 weeks ago my sweet mead was 1.109 and had a POTENTIAL abv of 15 reading today was 1.04 and there is 5 percent left to make

 

Which is why its recommended to use gravity scales during the making and convert later.

The ABV scale gives you an initial guide, but it depends on whether its marked at 0% ABV at 1.000 or at 0.990 hence confusing.

 

Great idea and I'm going to fix that JAOM according to your advice thank you

 

Good on yer.

It's all too easy to say bollocks to it and dump it down the sink. I refuse to do that.

With the expense and effort that goes into making, so I just try the usual methods to correct the fault and then just store it......at worst, it gets used for topping up other batches to negate racking losses. ...