1/3 sugar break in 72 hours?

[JordanR]

Hey peeps!

This is the second time ive blown through gravity points in 3 batches. How is it possible that the fermentation is moving so quickly and what do you recommend i do? Do i continue to degass?

How do i continue with my SNA as per batch buildr if I am already at 1/3 sugar break? I bought my nutrients from my local brewing shop, says Fermaid K and DAP on each of the packages, but im starting to question that.

Batch Name:	Spiced Metheglin 2.0
Date:	Aug 28	Target Batch Size:	6 gal / 22.7L	Target OG:	1.105	Target FG:	1.000
Water Source and Treatment:		springwater / 1 campden
1/3rd Sugar Break		1.070
INGREDIENTS
Amount	Ingredient	Date Added
8.108kg	Honey	Aug 28
12.00	Clove	Aug 28
5 bags	Tea	Aug 28
38.00	all spice berries	Aug 28
6 sticks.	Cinnimon stick	Aug 28
78g	Raisins Chopped	Aug 28
13.5g	Orange Zest tsp	Aug 28
6.5g	Vanilla Bean	Aug 28
610g	ginger	Aug 28
Actual OG:	1.106	Actual Volume:	6.3 gal / 24L
NUTRIENT MIXTURE
Amount	Nutrient Name
12.5g	Go-ferm
8.4g	Fermaid K
15g	DAP
STAGGERED NUTRIENT ADDITIONS
Amount	Date Added	Notes
5.9g	Aug 29	24 hours
5.9g	Aug 30	48 hr
5.5g	Aug 31	72 hr
		1/3 s/b
YEAST
Rehydration
Yeast Strain:	71B		Yeast Amount Used (g):	10.0
Rehydration Nutrient:		Go-ferm	Rehydration Nutrient Amount (g):	12.5
Rehydration Water Source:		campden water	Rehydration Water Amount (ml):	250.0
COMBINING YEAST WITH MUST
Yeast Temperature:		95.000	Must Temperature:	80.000
Temperature Difference:		15.000	Atempering Steps:	2.000
MEASUREMENTS
When	SG	Temperature	Other Notes
Aug 28	1.106	75
Aug 31	1.070	77
ADJUSTMENTS
When	Amount	What was Used	Other Comments

 

[Yooper]

At 80 degrees, fermentation will be very active, if not explosive. It sounds fine. Continue with the additions you've planned. Try to keep it at 70F or lower if possible.

 

[JordanR]

And continue degassing?

 

[Dan O]

Yes, especially before adding nutrients, otherwise, you'll have a mead explosion.

 

[bernardsmith]

Dan O, It's not the nutrients that themselves cause the volcanoes but the fact that IF -IF you add powder to a solution saturated with gas (in this case CO2) the gas nucleates around the particles and that nucleation allows the gas to form larger bubbles with far less energy than they would otherwise need. Solution is to dissolve the nutrients in liquid BEFORE you add them to the carboy OR use a wide mouthed bucket as your primary loosely covered with cloth. That enables far more of the CO2 to out-gas (no airlock) and the cloth covering encourages you to stir the mead or wine two or three times a day during the first days of active fermentation which also has the effect of de-gassing. But the cause of those volcanoes is nucleation and not so much the nutrients.

 

[Dan O]

Dan O, It's not the nutrients that themselves cause the volcanoes but the fact that IF -IF you add powder to a solution saturated with gas (in this case CO2) the gas nucleates around the particles and that nucleation allows the gas to form larger bubbles with far less energy than they would otherwise need. Solution is to dissolve the nutrients in liquid BEFORE you add them to the carboy OR use a wide mouthed bucket as your primary loosely covered with cloth. That enables far more of the CO2 to out-gas (no airlock) and the cloth covering encourages you to stir the mead or wine two or three times a day during the first days of active fermentation which also has the effect of de-gassing. But the cause of those volcanoes is nucleation and not so much the nutrients.

Agreed, @bernardsmith. I never add dry nutrients, but, in fact, when I do make feeding additions, I spoon in the nutrients mixed with water one tablespoon @ a time, to avoid just that type of volcanic eruption. It takes me a minute longer, but, there's no mess like a mead mess.

 

[bernardsmith]

But if you add liquid with no granular quality there are no edges to cause nucleation and so nothing to erupt. The other thing is that if you are using a carboy as your primary the narrow neck can act to rifle the gases and so the volcano can paint your ceiling. Me? I use buckets as my primary so no rifling takes place.

 

[Raptor99]

I use buckets for primary as well, so if it foams up when I add nutrients it is not a problem. I always leave plenty of extra space in the bucket to avoid this type of problem.