Month: oktober 2014

I have spend several days monitoring how the fermentation has progressed: Monday the 27th of OctoberThe following day I opened the fermenter and sampled for gravity and pH. pH: 3.84SG: 1.110Temp: NA Bugger, I forgot to measure temperature (?). Never the less it is interesting to see that pH had fallen from 4.7 to 3.8 due to the CO2 produced by the yeast. This is still in the start-up of the fermentation so yeast count is probably increasing. The resulting SG shows a decrease in gravity of 0.010. Then I added the second nutrient pack:Fermaid K: 2.0 gMAP: 4.0 gMAC: 3.0 gK2CO3: 2.0gTotal: 64 ppm N and 57 ppm K+ […]

Recipe: 7200 g of Summer honey, 2014 140 g of Spring honey, 2014 5 Nutrient packs according to SNA scheme Water to 20 L 3.5 L of currant juice Starter: As always I am aiming at a starting gravity of 1.120 which is so high that it could become difficult for the yeast to really get started – So just in case I initiated the fermentation with a starter at a little less than half the gravity. I dissolved 140 g of “spring honey” in 800 ml warm water, covered the glass and let it cool to room temperature.  pH: 5.98SG: 1.058 Just before adding the yeast I whipped the […]

I could not figure out how to attach a file to the blog, so I just scanned the SNA scheme that I prepared. It look like this: For some reason, the last line of the page is not scanned – that is what you get when you buy a cheap printer/scanner.  Everything is calculated once you entered the weighed amounts. The scheme is set up for additions over 5 days but will be adjusted according to how this mead behaves. 

This time I will try to make a currant mead using the current juice I prepared this summer and have been storing in the freezer since (ref. HERE). Secondly, I will try to keep the fermentation strong until the max ABV is reached by Staggered Nutrition Addition. Basically there is not much else but glucose and fructose in the must. This means that if nutrients need to be added to avoid a sluggish fermentation. As far as I can find on the internet I need:300 ppm of FAN/YAN300 ppm of potassium.and yeast nutrients in general. For this I used Fermaid K and since I still have not been able to […]