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Aliuken

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This is my first time trying to make mead and it's been going for 4 weeks. I decided to rack it for the first time and noticed a sour smell coming from it but it doesn't taste bad though. During fermentation I did notice that it wasn't bubbling as much as I thought it would but it was bubbling so I just let it go.
Recipe was:
3lbs of Great Value 100% honey
1 gallon of GV water
About 2 grams of Red Star HOZQ8-529 Premier Blanc Wine Yeast

I don't mind dumping it and starting over but if it's saveable or if the smell is normal I'd like to learn how if nothing else
 
Yo uh s huhould stick around and learn how to make mead. It looks like you missed a good bit of things that makes your mead miles better. Just put yours away for a few months and try it again later. Making it the way you did I would bet it has some off flavors in it. We have podcast here. Go start on 9/5/17. Listen to them and take notes. Then once you are ready to make batch, run youre protocol by us first so we can make sure your covering everything
 
Sorry if this double posts but the first one seems to have deleted itself.
I wanted to keep it simple for my first time trying to make mead. I heard it is better to add nutrient for the yeast and stuff like that but I wanted to see if I liked the taste before I spent all the extra money on it. I'll try the nutrient and a higher quality honey next time as well
 
Nutrients are way cheaper than honey. And if you fail to feed your yeast you ruin your honey
 
Ah, the good old days of reading about nutrients and thinking they're too complicated to use, expensive and difficult to acquire...
 
I would be way less inclined to make as much mead as I do if I had to revert back to the "old days".
 
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