Recent content by Akustaka

Welp took another gravity reading of the second mead run and now it's down to 1.030 gravity, I went ahead and racked it since I was worried about the lowes container potentially contaminating it as a previous poster said. The mead is in 3 seperate gallon containers and during racking I got rid...

That's prolly why my math was coming back weird, I misunderstood your original formula you posted, thanks for clearing that up!

so for my 15 pound honey batch using the nutrients and energizer, that would mean my starting gravity for 15p honey to 3.5g water is 1.0785, and now it's at 1.091?

I only just got the hydrometer like a day or two before posting this so I didn't get an initial reading sadly, but it's only been fermenting for 10 days on the second batch, how quickly does yeast usually eat the sugars and produce alcohol? Like I said I let the first batch ferment for 4 1/2 weeks.

So on a whim I decided to try making mead for the first time. I used a single 5g packet of red star baking yeast with no nutrients or energizer in a 5 gallon lowes bucket, 3.5 gallons of water to 6-8ish pounds of honey. I watched a video or two on youtube and decided to just give it a whirl. I...