Matt T
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Hello ,
I'm new to making mead first time. And I have made a batch in a 5.5 gal carboy I used room temperature bottled water around 68-70 ish degrees and added 30lbs of honey by miscalculation . I hydrated the yeast and added 10g of 71B wine yeast to the carboy but I didn't remember to let the yeast cool down before adding it to the must. left it for 48 hours and. Came back and no bubbles. So I stirred it and left it for another day . I still didn't see any results, so I decided to add another 10g of hydrated yeast and left it for a day I'm on day 4 and no bubbles but it looks like a foam ring on the outter side of the carboy is forming . And no.. I didn't use any nutrients . And I'm not sure if I shocked the yeast which I think I did. But any ideas on how I can fix it ? I would like a sweet mead with an ABV around 9-15 % any help would be great !!
I'm new to making mead first time. And I have made a batch in a 5.5 gal carboy I used room temperature bottled water around 68-70 ish degrees and added 30lbs of honey by miscalculation . I hydrated the yeast and added 10g of 71B wine yeast to the carboy but I didn't remember to let the yeast cool down before adding it to the must. left it for 48 hours and. Came back and no bubbles. So I stirred it and left it for another day . I still didn't see any results, so I decided to add another 10g of hydrated yeast and left it for a day I'm on day 4 and no bubbles but it looks like a foam ring on the outter side of the carboy is forming . And no.. I didn't use any nutrients . And I'm not sure if I shocked the yeast which I think I did. But any ideas on how I can fix it ? I would like a sweet mead with an ABV around 9-15 % any help would be great !!