Insomniac
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Hi all, 3 - 4 months ago I posted about a mead that was... unintentionally high in gravity.
I had decided to throw together all the random pots of honey I had collected over the last few months, as well as finish off the bucket of honey I had been using - as there wasn't enough in it to make a batch by itself.
Only after I had made this and pitched some yeast did I realise that I had created a monster, sitting at about 1.19 OG, and very much not fermenting at all. After a trip to the shops for some more yeast to make a starter with I made a starter with Youngs super yeast compound and by some miricle it took off the next day.
Today this has now cleared so I racked it for the second time and took a new reading. 1.14 - bugger.
So, its about 8% and insanly sweet. Well beyond what anyone would drink other than a shot or so.
So, any thoughts? All I can think of doing currently is splitting it exactly in two once another carboy is free and topping up with water and a little bit more honey and repitching - something I probably should have done in the first place...
Edit: I just found my original post, turns out it was somewhere between 1.19 and 1.23 depending on the sugar content of some banana stuff I put in as well, which means its somewhere between 8% and 12%...
I had decided to throw together all the random pots of honey I had collected over the last few months, as well as finish off the bucket of honey I had been using - as there wasn't enough in it to make a batch by itself.
Only after I had made this and pitched some yeast did I realise that I had created a monster, sitting at about 1.19 OG, and very much not fermenting at all. After a trip to the shops for some more yeast to make a starter with I made a starter with Youngs super yeast compound and by some miricle it took off the next day.
Today this has now cleared so I racked it for the second time and took a new reading. 1.14 - bugger.
So, its about 8% and insanly sweet. Well beyond what anyone would drink other than a shot or so.
So, any thoughts? All I can think of doing currently is splitting it exactly in two once another carboy is free and topping up with water and a little bit more honey and repitching - something I probably should have done in the first place...
Edit: I just found my original post, turns out it was somewhere between 1.19 and 1.23 depending on the sugar content of some banana stuff I put in as well, which means its somewhere between 8% and 12%...