Philip54321
New Member
Hello Forum users. I'm hoping you can give me some advice on my first batch of mead making.
I am a beekeeper and a month ago on 12 June I made a large batch of mead using honey I had harvested from my bee hives. I had enough for 3.5 x gallon demijohns.
I mixed the honey with water until I reached the correct starting gravity parameters and added brewers yeast (unfortunately I later found it was over a year past expiry date).
After 36 hours the airlocks were happily bubbling away- some batches faster than others. I left them alone and today, a month later checked the gravity again. Here are my results: #1 1.105-1.024, #2 1.107-1.088, #3 1.114-1.102, #4 1.104-1.094. It looks like only #1 has been behaving as it should and the others are slow. They are all still bubbling, but only slowly. Can you please give me some advice as to what I should do because it took a lot of time and effort to harvest the honey and make the mead and I would hate to have to throw it away. Thank you.
I am a beekeeper and a month ago on 12 June I made a large batch of mead using honey I had harvested from my bee hives. I had enough for 3.5 x gallon demijohns.
I mixed the honey with water until I reached the correct starting gravity parameters and added brewers yeast (unfortunately I later found it was over a year past expiry date).
After 36 hours the airlocks were happily bubbling away- some batches faster than others. I left them alone and today, a month later checked the gravity again. Here are my results: #1 1.105-1.024, #2 1.107-1.088, #3 1.114-1.102, #4 1.104-1.094. It looks like only #1 has been behaving as it should and the others are slow. They are all still bubbling, but only slowly. Can you please give me some advice as to what I should do because it took a lot of time and effort to harvest the honey and make the mead and I would hate to have to throw it away. Thank you.