OK guys/gals, I have only been brewing for about 6 months. I have made some successful ales, and the presence of mead in Skyrim got me thinking. I went out and bought some plain mead, and liked the taste. It was semi sweet, so I figured I would try some.
Here is my recipie and procedure:
2 Gallons of water
4 lbs pure honey
2 cups raisins
4 bananas
I heated the water SLIGHTLY to help dissolve the honey(about 85*F)
Poured the mixture into the carboy, added my raisins and pitched the yeast at about 75*F and aerated the heck out of it.
Bubbling started after only about 2 hours! Faster than most of my beers! I let it ferment in the closet, and after a week the bubbling slowed WAY down, and another half a week the mead/must looked like it might be clearing up just a touch.
I racked the mead/must into a secondary and added the 4 peeled and sliced bananas.
1. What do you think?
2. How long do you think it will take to clear up and be ready to bottle?
3. What horrible mistakes have I made?
Oh yea.....both my carboys are 3 gallon, so I have about a gallon of headspace at the top. Is this too much?
Thanks.
EDIT>> Oh yea one more thing. PLEASE don't flame me, as this is really an inexpensive experiment, but I used the only yeast I had on hand at the time.....Fleischmann's bread yeast.....
Here is my recipie and procedure:
2 Gallons of water
4 lbs pure honey
2 cups raisins
4 bananas
I heated the water SLIGHTLY to help dissolve the honey(about 85*F)
Poured the mixture into the carboy, added my raisins and pitched the yeast at about 75*F and aerated the heck out of it.
Bubbling started after only about 2 hours! Faster than most of my beers! I let it ferment in the closet, and after a week the bubbling slowed WAY down, and another half a week the mead/must looked like it might be clearing up just a touch.
I racked the mead/must into a secondary and added the 4 peeled and sliced bananas.
1. What do you think?
2. How long do you think it will take to clear up and be ready to bottle?
3. What horrible mistakes have I made?
Oh yea.....both my carboys are 3 gallon, so I have about a gallon of headspace at the top. Is this too much?
Thanks.
EDIT>> Oh yea one more thing. PLEASE don't flame me, as this is really an inexpensive experiment, but I used the only yeast I had on hand at the time.....Fleischmann's bread yeast.....