Hello All
I am new to the forum and new to making mead. I brewed a 1 Gal batch a year and a half ago as a trial, my wife loved it so much I hardly even got a taste, lol. So now I have a 5 to 6 Gal batch going of just a traditional, with the hopes of putting about 4 Gal to secondary keeping it the way it is, and running a couple 1 Gal trials of melomel. My OG was 1.090 but it has stalled at 1.050, here's what I have done so far:
Nov. 17 dissolved 15lbs of honey into 5 gal reverse osmosis water with 5 campton tablets, wait 24hrs.
Nov. 18 mixed in 5 tsp yeast nutriant 2.5 tsp yeast energizer, pitched I packet of Lalvin E1118 SG 1.090
Nov 30 bubbling has stopped, gravity reading still high at 1.050
Dec 7 gravity still reading 1.050 It seems to have stalled
Dec. 8 rehydrate another packet of lalvin E1118 in some room temp rev osmosis water and pour in to the fermenting pail
Dec. 10 only a couple bubbles on the surface
What am I doing wrong?
I'm not sure why it stalled, temp has been kept between 20 and 22 degrees Celsius the entire time. any advice would be greatly appreciated, I would hate to have to throw it out and start over.
One thing to note, is that I used honey from costco, which I later found out, is just a blend of what ever honey they can get, would this matter?
Scott
I am new to the forum and new to making mead. I brewed a 1 Gal batch a year and a half ago as a trial, my wife loved it so much I hardly even got a taste, lol. So now I have a 5 to 6 Gal batch going of just a traditional, with the hopes of putting about 4 Gal to secondary keeping it the way it is, and running a couple 1 Gal trials of melomel. My OG was 1.090 but it has stalled at 1.050, here's what I have done so far:
Nov. 17 dissolved 15lbs of honey into 5 gal reverse osmosis water with 5 campton tablets, wait 24hrs.
Nov. 18 mixed in 5 tsp yeast nutriant 2.5 tsp yeast energizer, pitched I packet of Lalvin E1118 SG 1.090
Nov 30 bubbling has stopped, gravity reading still high at 1.050
Dec 7 gravity still reading 1.050 It seems to have stalled
Dec. 8 rehydrate another packet of lalvin E1118 in some room temp rev osmosis water and pour in to the fermenting pail
Dec. 10 only a couple bubbles on the surface
What am I doing wrong?
I'm not sure why it stalled, temp has been kept between 20 and 22 degrees Celsius the entire time. any advice would be greatly appreciated, I would hate to have to throw it out and start over.
One thing to note, is that I used honey from costco, which I later found out, is just a blend of what ever honey they can get, would this matter?
Scott