Smaller batch is less waiting?

[kevinmaaktwijn]

Hi there,
I m trying to make mead for the first time.
I made 2 big bottles of 5 litres yesterday. But everybody knows, making mead takes time.

I was thinking to experiment with melomels or short meads in 1 litre bottles or maybe 50cl bottles.
So I can try some things, flavors,...

My question is, does the time of fermenting, and whole the process stay the same with smaller batches?
Or can I make drinkable stuff in 1 month or less with those small batches?

I know, aging always makes the mead better but its just to do something and taste something while im waiting for my larger batches.

Tgank you

Sorry for my bad english

 

[Ken2029]

I've only make 1 gallon and 5 gallon batches. Both take the same amount of time.

 

[Squatchy]

Any size batch, (providing they are the same gravity) will take the same amount of time. But lesser gravity meads take less time than does a high gravity mead.
As far as having something Drinkable in one month. If you're not doing that with everything you make you're doing it wrong.

 

[m0n5t3r]

you're going to lose small quantities when tasting, etc., and also when racking; the volume lost to sediment should be reasonably proportional to the batch size, but tasting will be a rather fixed quantity, and 100ml tasted from 5l / 1 gallon-ish batch is not a significant proportion of the thing, but it will really show if you do 1l or 500ml batches (I, for one, draw ~10ml at a time for tasting, and taste things at least once a week)

edit: I do my test batches in 2.5l pepsi PET bottles, I have lots of them and they are about the lowest I would go for a batch.
edit2: also, for melomels I would try large jars instead of bottles, they will be much easier to handle / clean / etc.

 

[Stasis]

Only go for very small batch sizes when you're trying something REALLY crazy when you think that the chances of failure are quite significant but you still want to try it out for science