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NG Honey (Wild) Mead

128 calories 8.2 g 330 ml
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Beer Stats
Method: Extract
Style: Dry Mead
Boil Time: 5 min
Batch Size: 28 liters (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 4 liters
Post Boil Size: 3.5 liters
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.299 (recipe based estimate)
Post Boil Gravity: 1.342 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 100% (steeping grains only)
Calories: 128 calories (Per 330ml)
Carbs: 8.2 g (Per 330ml)
Created: Tuesday April 10th 2018
1.043
1.003
5.2%
0.0
4.7
n/a
n/a
 
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
1.50 kg Honey1.5 kg Honey 35 2 42.9%
1 kg Brown Sugar1 kg Brown Sugar 45 15 28.6%
1 kg Cane Sugar1 kg Cane Sugar 46 0 28.6%
3.50 kg / 0.00 €
 
Other Ingredients
Amount Name Cost Type Use Time
6 each Citrus juice Spice Boil 0 min.
6 each Citrus peel Spice Boil 5 min.
 
Yeast
Fermentis - Safale - American Ale Yeast US-05
Amount:
1 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
81%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
12 - 25 °C
Starter:
No
Fermentation Temp:
19 °C
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P) 105 B cells required
0.00 € Yeast Pitch Rate and Starter Calculator
Priming
CO2 Level: 0 Volumes
 
Target Water Profile
Helsinki
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
0 0 0 0 0 0
Quick Water Requirements
Water Liters
Boil water added to kettle (equipment estimates 1.7 L) 1.7
Volume increase from sugar/extract (early additions) 2.3
Pre boil volume (equipment estimates 4 L) 4
Boil off losses -0.5
Post boil volume 3.5
Top off amount 24.5
Going into fermentor 28
Total: 26.2  
Equipment Profile Used: System Default
 
Notes

April 5th: Brew day

April 16th: The mead was not ready for bottling. Suspecting either too cold conditions or problem in the yeast. Good news is that the taste was ok. So we’ll just continue the fermenting - we just need more time. Gravity reading was at 1030 (target being < 1010). Let’s try again end of this week.

April 24th: Now the honey mead we made earlier that seemed not to ferment properly has continued fermenting and seems to have developers some kind of sour properties.

May 7th: Bottled 32 0.75L bottles of honey wild mead with some more honey :-) The experiment continues, let’s see where we are after a couple of weeks. Expecting the 2nd fermentation to take considerably longer too so probably two weeks is not enough. Maybe a month? Six months? Who knows?

OG was 1040, FG 1008. Alcohol by Volume estimated to be at 4.2%

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