Started a Skeeter 'Mead' Pee on 2-16-21 using the slurry from my recent blueberry melomel, using 71B and didn't remember to wash the slurry before starting the new batch. Following the recipe while exchanging table sugar for honey, same additions and schedule with slightly higher O.G. 1.076. Overnight after the pitch, some fruit pulp from the blueberry slurry formed a wet cap and sealed the lid and airlock before popping the lid on the only edge facing the wall. Cleaned up, opened the lid and skimmed all the thick foam which removed alot of pulp then cleaned the lid and resealed. This evening after degassing and adding 2nd stage nutrients, I didn't think they were necessary but I'm trying the recipe before I adjust anything, I heard a cry from the wife that my mead was exploding. Same story again, foam sealed the lid and was erupting out of the airlock but luckily was only on top of the lid. Clean, skim, degass and reseal... One hour later as I'm almost asleep, "Babe your mead is doing it again!" Ok, gotta wake up early so now I have mixed everything well and split between the bucket and a carboy...
Long story but I've heard the skeeter pee tends to form a minimal foam or krausen if you please, and outside of D47 I've never had foam issues, but I've also never tried this recipe before. Hopefully I will get to sleep on it and find nothing out of it's vessel in the morning.
Anybody else ever have a thick dense foam in a Skeeter Pee mead? Specifically it's rising in a bucket about 8 inches or 20 cm just for an idea, never had anything climb that high and blowoff tube has never been necessary and I don't have one.
Long story but I've heard the skeeter pee tends to form a minimal foam or krausen if you please, and outside of D47 I've never had foam issues, but I've also never tried this recipe before. Hopefully I will get to sleep on it and find nothing out of it's vessel in the morning.
Anybody else ever have a thick dense foam in a Skeeter Pee mead? Specifically it's rising in a bucket about 8 inches or 20 cm just for an idea, never had anything climb that high and blowoff tube has never been necessary and I don't have one.