Hey guys I did a search and found a few things that helped but nothing that made me feel confident.
I made a mead from 18 lbs of a wildflower/clover honey mix, 5 gallons of water, and Wyeast dry mead yeast. Put it in a 6.5 carboy. On July 10th it will have been in the primary for two months. The airlock is still ticking away, with a very thin layer of sediment on the bottom. It is bubbling just a little slower, than when it first took off. The original gravity was 1.104, and I will not take another sample until the first racking. The ambient temp is 70 degrees F. So it is not slow due to a low temp. 6 tsp. of nutrient was added (1 tsp per gallon of must).
My questions are...
Should I leave this thing in the primary until it starts to clear?
Should I get it off the thin layer of lees?
Push primary to three months?
Is autolysis really an issue here?
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks
I made a mead from 18 lbs of a wildflower/clover honey mix, 5 gallons of water, and Wyeast dry mead yeast. Put it in a 6.5 carboy. On July 10th it will have been in the primary for two months. The airlock is still ticking away, with a very thin layer of sediment on the bottom. It is bubbling just a little slower, than when it first took off. The original gravity was 1.104, and I will not take another sample until the first racking. The ambient temp is 70 degrees F. So it is not slow due to a low temp. 6 tsp. of nutrient was added (1 tsp per gallon of must).
My questions are...
Should I leave this thing in the primary until it starts to clear?
Should I get it off the thin layer of lees?
Push primary to three months?
Is autolysis really an issue here?
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks