Auto fermentation in refrigerator

[emolas]

So, funny story. I mixed up honey water in a bucket to make a gallon of mead and somehow ended up with about a cup and a half of honey water that just didn't fit in my carboy so I put it in a mason jar in the refrigerator intending to use it for backsweetening. I promptly forgot about it and found it 6 months later while cleaning. The top was bowed and there was sediment at the bottom so it looked like it fermented in the refrigerator.

Being the dummy with a cast iron stomach I am, I decided to take a taste and it was actually quite good. Sweet and carbonated and definitely alcoholic.

I didn't pitch the yeast until I got it in the carboy so this jar was nothing but honey and water. Anyone ever had honey water just ferment on its own? I know originally it was made with wild yeast but it seems funny that it was in a sealed jar in the refrigerator and yet life found a way.

 

[Maylar]

I've had apple juice do that, but not mead. Where did you get the honey from?

 

[emolas]

I've had apple juice do that, but not mead. Where did you get the honey from?

Farm stand. That's a good point, it was fresh from the farm. Raw, unfiltered, and unpasteurized so it may have had some yeasts already in it. Cold-friendly ones, apparently.