BigStone777
Well-Known Member
I read another post called Quick Mead, and i started to comment, but it got too long, so i made my own thread... didn't want to hijack his thread... yes, you're welcome...
I made a starter a few weeks ago, using the sweet rice wine yeast i found locally... I made the starter with a little bit of warm water at first and then added apple juice and honey. I let the starter sit for a long time, in a half gallon jar with an airlock (home made), then i added some apple juice and honey... at some point, but i never started another 5 gal batch like i had planned to...
The jar of starter stuff bubbled happily for a week or so, and got pretty clear very fast. Then it stopped bubbling. The other day, some white moldy looking stuff appeared on top... being that it was only half gallon, i said whatever, and thought i would just dump it... so I looked up whatever i could on this forum about finding mold on your brew. It seems you can just sweep it aside and keep going...
So i was thinking about dumping it out, but instead decided to play with it, smell it, touch it, taste it, etc. (Get yur minds out of the gutters... this is mead we're talking about)...
Well it had a good sweet smell, and only slightly of vinegar. The vinegar smell was so slight that i wasn't even sure if it was that, or maybe just the smell of carbon dioxide and such...
I filtered it through a tea filter i have, and seemed to get all the floaters and scum, and yeast goo. So i took a taste... and it was quite nice, and the color was beautiful. Something i would share with friends... So i shared it with my assistant, and he thought it was good too. I asked him if he thinks theres alcohol in it, and he said yes, definitely, but smooth and not strong flavor.
So what's happened here? Why was it drinkable so fast?
since then, I added some honey, shook it up, and put the airlock back on... just as an experiment. I have seen a few bubbles come through the airlock since then. Not many, but a few... and there was some white foam on top this morning...
I made a starter a few weeks ago, using the sweet rice wine yeast i found locally... I made the starter with a little bit of warm water at first and then added apple juice and honey. I let the starter sit for a long time, in a half gallon jar with an airlock (home made), then i added some apple juice and honey... at some point, but i never started another 5 gal batch like i had planned to...
The jar of starter stuff bubbled happily for a week or so, and got pretty clear very fast. Then it stopped bubbling. The other day, some white moldy looking stuff appeared on top... being that it was only half gallon, i said whatever, and thought i would just dump it... so I looked up whatever i could on this forum about finding mold on your brew. It seems you can just sweep it aside and keep going...
So i was thinking about dumping it out, but instead decided to play with it, smell it, touch it, taste it, etc. (Get yur minds out of the gutters... this is mead we're talking about)...
Well it had a good sweet smell, and only slightly of vinegar. The vinegar smell was so slight that i wasn't even sure if it was that, or maybe just the smell of carbon dioxide and such...
I filtered it through a tea filter i have, and seemed to get all the floaters and scum, and yeast goo. So i took a taste... and it was quite nice, and the color was beautiful. Something i would share with friends... So i shared it with my assistant, and he thought it was good too. I asked him if he thinks theres alcohol in it, and he said yes, definitely, but smooth and not strong flavor.
So what's happened here? Why was it drinkable so fast?
since then, I added some honey, shook it up, and put the airlock back on... just as an experiment. I have seen a few bubbles come through the airlock since then. Not many, but a few... and there was some white foam on top this morning...
