Nutrient dosing question

[eyebrau]

Today I put together my first mead that I'm trying to do relatively "properly" (got lucky with the other mead batches I did... normally a beer brewer). I did 5 lbs. of honey in 3 gallons of spring water. Used Nottingham yeast from a previous low ABV beer batch that I'd harvested. Plenty of yeast in there. Fermenting at an ambient temp of 60F. I got an OG of 1.056. Put in 1.5 tsp of nutrient, and know I need to add another dose at 2/3 and 1/3 gravity.

My question is, does anybody have a ballpark estimate of how long it'll take to get to those levels? I only ask because on Thursday this week I leave to go camping through Sunday. I'm hoping both these doses might be done before then... or perhaps the last dose can wait until come back home? I mean, I know the yeast is going to do what it's going to do, but I really want to get an idea as to whether my timing will work or not. Second question would be if the third dose would fall in the time I'm gone, would it work to just dose it immediately before I leave?

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[Drewed]

There is no way to tell, but because you pitched what I would assume is a huge amount of yeast ( harvested post ferment ) it should rip through the reliably low gravity mead pretty quick. You may be at 24 hrs and 48 hrs. You will have to check.

 

[eyebrau]

Ok, thanks. It started bubbling in the airlock after about 3-4 hours, so it's definitely tearing through. I'll check in a little bit, 24 hours would be about 6 hours from now.

 

[eyebrau]

Wow, glad I checked... it was at 1.036 which is about 1/3 of the way down after about 22 hours. Wow, that was really fast. Thanks.