we’ve had a crazy few months as a family. This is my third or fourth time making mead. I didn’t keep up with it like I should have.
I started two gallons (two 1 gallon jugs) in December. Added to the must some yeast nutrient, orange slices, raisins, and blueberries.
So multiple things have happened here: I started primary on Dec 11, 2022. I checked in on it often, used blowoff tubes into mason jars filled with Star San water. Everything was fine during normally primary time, it was pretty active. Life got crazy. So I left the blowoff tubes on. Life stayed crazy. I never racked to secondary. Left blowoff tubes on. I decided to just leave it, but I forgot that all the fruit makes that kind of risky business.
The jugs have orange slices, blueberries, and raisins in them.
All of that is still in there. It April 2nd 2023. Should I just throw it out?
I don’t see infection or mold per se, the fruit looks a good bit brown and mushy.
At one point in end of February, I noticed I had even let the blowoff tube jars evaporate, so the tubes were sitting in dry jars to open air. >< They’re long tubes, one of the tubes had a section of it filled with sani water that it must have sucked in, so that one was sort of sealed. But the other didn’t.
So, all those factors considered, is there a high chance or some nasty botulism or something else being present in these now hiding in here due to this much neglect, or would it still be an age old situation of “just taste it, if you don’t see nasty stuff all in the jug and it tastes ok, it’s ok”
I know I really failed on this one.
I started two gallons (two 1 gallon jugs) in December. Added to the must some yeast nutrient, orange slices, raisins, and blueberries.
So multiple things have happened here: I started primary on Dec 11, 2022. I checked in on it often, used blowoff tubes into mason jars filled with Star San water. Everything was fine during normally primary time, it was pretty active. Life got crazy. So I left the blowoff tubes on. Life stayed crazy. I never racked to secondary. Left blowoff tubes on. I decided to just leave it, but I forgot that all the fruit makes that kind of risky business.
The jugs have orange slices, blueberries, and raisins in them.
All of that is still in there. It April 2nd 2023. Should I just throw it out?
I don’t see infection or mold per se, the fruit looks a good bit brown and mushy.
At one point in end of February, I noticed I had even let the blowoff tube jars evaporate, so the tubes were sitting in dry jars to open air. >< They’re long tubes, one of the tubes had a section of it filled with sani water that it must have sucked in, so that one was sort of sealed. But the other didn’t.
So, all those factors considered, is there a high chance or some nasty botulism or something else being present in these now hiding in here due to this much neglect, or would it still be an age old situation of “just taste it, if you don’t see nasty stuff all in the jug and it tastes ok, it’s ok”
I know I really failed on this one.