Hi!
As we all know, CO2 is not the yeasts best friend and during the process of making mead we are degassing the soon to be mead as often as possible via stirring and shaking. I thought about how unconvenient this is and thought about other possibilities.
Have you guys ever had those etched/scratched/carved san miguel glasses which have a logo at the bottom at the inside of the glass? This logo is really really rough, like glas which has been scratched with sandpaper.
This rough spot permanently provides places where CO2 can build nucleotides and bubble out of the beer. The result is a nice foam and a beer going flat relatively quickly. The etched spot is forcing the CO2 out of solution.
My idea is now introducing a bigger surface of those rough surfaces into the fermenter which should actively degass the mead all the time it is inside. I thought about, maybe those pieces of glass that you can find on the beach, being sanded by the ocean, being really rough on the surface, it could work. Obviously they need to be washed, boiled and sanitised, but afterwards those things should work!
Any other ideas of objects that could work for this purpose or general ideas?
As we all know, CO2 is not the yeasts best friend and during the process of making mead we are degassing the soon to be mead as often as possible via stirring and shaking. I thought about how unconvenient this is and thought about other possibilities.
Have you guys ever had those etched/scratched/carved san miguel glasses which have a logo at the bottom at the inside of the glass? This logo is really really rough, like glas which has been scratched with sandpaper.
This rough spot permanently provides places where CO2 can build nucleotides and bubble out of the beer. The result is a nice foam and a beer going flat relatively quickly. The etched spot is forcing the CO2 out of solution.
My idea is now introducing a bigger surface of those rough surfaces into the fermenter which should actively degass the mead all the time it is inside. I thought about, maybe those pieces of glass that you can find on the beach, being sanded by the ocean, being really rough on the surface, it could work. Obviously they need to be washed, boiled and sanitised, but afterwards those things should work!
Any other ideas of objects that could work for this purpose or general ideas?