Month: oktober 2013

Ingredients:Kieselsol 15 mlChitosan 50 ml It has now been 3 weeks and 5 days since I prepared the batch. For the past week there has not been any bubbling from the airlock, so I am assuming that the fermentation has stopped. I had hoped that the mead would sort of clear but it is not even close. When I opened the fermenter a very pleasant smell filled the kitchen – so far so good. But the solution was very murky and was about as clear as orange juice. I am wondering if I will have any change of fully clearing it. Anyway, to start with I measured the relative density […]

This is a basic mead recipe that I found in the book “The complete mead maker” by Ken Schramm. It is slightly modified due to the yeast that I used, so here we go Ingredients: 7.20 kg of my own garden honey about 15 L of tap water Wyeast “yeast nutrition” 2 g / 10 L Vinoferm – Bioferm Killer (up to 16%, low residual sugar)  All equipment was first washed thoroughly and then sterilized with an iodine solution.I started by adding 7 L of water to my 15 L pot and began bringing it to a boil. The original recipe use 6.8 kg  (15 lps) of honey to about 19 […]

Ingredients:Wyeast “yeast nutrition” 2 g / 10 L Today was the second week after the preparation of the my first batch of mead and it is now time to rack it it to a second fermenter. This was quite easily done by placing the initial fermenter on the kitchen table and put two plates underneath to tilt it. Take the fermentation lock out first before moving the fermenter, so that the old water in the lock is not pulled into the fermenter by accident. It can be infected. With a siphon the liquid content was moved to the second fermenter, a process that takes about 15 min. This has to […]

Ingredients: 10 L of apple juice from “Inger Marie” apples (English name unknown) 5 L of apple juice from Cox Orange apples 385 g of fresh yet frozen rosehip where all seeds have been removed.  7.50 kg of my own garden honeyZymex Pectinase enzyme + maltodextrine (10g) “A fruit wine package” with yeast (unknown) pre mixed with nutrients Kitzinger Port yeast (5g) Now that all the ingredients were in place it was time to prepare my first mead. As always, all equipment was first washed thoroughly and then sterilized with an iodine solution. Then it was time to boil the apple juice. I only have one 15L pot so the boiling […]