Nyxsmead
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It has been two days and not a single bubble from the airlock. I’m using a carboy and the rubber cork/airlock is definitely on correctly, I didn’t put too much water in the airlock either.
This is my first batch ever so please bare with me /.\
I aimed to make a 1gallon batch of cyser. I used 1 gallon of apple cider and 4 lbs of honey, 5 grams of Lalvin D47 yeast, 1 teaspoon nutrients from Goferm and 1/2 teaspoon energizer.
Possible problems (?): I ran into some issues while preparing the mead so I though I’d include them so as to provide possible clues; 1. My drill I was going to use for gravity wasn’t working so I ended up making the must in the bucket I used to sanitize everything in and used a hand mixer (what you would use for mixing cake batter) to aerate the must. When I took the gravity reading it was slightly lower than 1.100. I put the must into my carboy and shook it up a little more. Then, I added the yeast that I was acclimating. Which brings me to #2) I didn’t have a thermometer when I was acclimating the yeast, I just used my intuition to judge how hot the water was when adding my yeast. Didn’t think this would be too much of a problem but let me know if it is!
anyway, after adding the yeast, nutrients and energizer into the carboy, I shook it a tiny bit more and then put it in a dark place. (My carboy is dark green) don’t know if this makes any difference but I thought I’d mention.)
Please let me know what I should dooo!! I hate that there aren’t any bubbles going! This is my first batch so buying everything was super expensive and I don’t wanna have to throw out this batch. Thank you for reading!
This is my first batch ever so please bare with me /.\
I aimed to make a 1gallon batch of cyser. I used 1 gallon of apple cider and 4 lbs of honey, 5 grams of Lalvin D47 yeast, 1 teaspoon nutrients from Goferm and 1/2 teaspoon energizer.
Possible problems (?): I ran into some issues while preparing the mead so I though I’d include them so as to provide possible clues; 1. My drill I was going to use for gravity wasn’t working so I ended up making the must in the bucket I used to sanitize everything in and used a hand mixer (what you would use for mixing cake batter) to aerate the must. When I took the gravity reading it was slightly lower than 1.100. I put the must into my carboy and shook it up a little more. Then, I added the yeast that I was acclimating. Which brings me to #2) I didn’t have a thermometer when I was acclimating the yeast, I just used my intuition to judge how hot the water was when adding my yeast. Didn’t think this would be too much of a problem but let me know if it is!
anyway, after adding the yeast, nutrients and energizer into the carboy, I shook it a tiny bit more and then put it in a dark place. (My carboy is dark green) don’t know if this makes any difference but I thought I’d mention.)
Please let me know what I should dooo!! I hate that there aren’t any bubbles going! This is my first batch so buying everything was super expensive and I don’t wanna have to throw out this batch. Thank you for reading!