m1k3
Well-Known Member
I just repitched 4.5 gallons of water and 6 pounds of wild flower honey on the yeast cake from a T-58 Belgian beer fermentation.
Anyone ever done this? What can I expect?
Anyone ever done this? What can I expect?
Interesting! did it start fermenting and is it aggressive?
I doubt you'll end up with the result you mention m1k3. That's a tiny amount of honey made up to 5 gallons. Honey isn't like any mash. It's 100% fermentable and if there's enough nutrition that the live yeast can get from the yeast cake, then it will more likely ferment dry.
Don't forget, with beers/mash etc, any residual sweetness is usually unfermentable sugars - you won't have any of that at the moment.........
I'd have thought you'd just get a lower strength dry batch.........
Might be wrong but I don't think so.......
I appreciate that some don't worry about that as they will be drinking it themselves and aren't fussed about a little bit of cloudinesss...... I'm a great believer that we, even as home mead makers, should make the effort to get as professional a finished product as we can - people are gullible and "eat with their eyes" too much - and often if they don't think it's been produced well will claim that it's OK, but not like when you buy some.......
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