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NG Honey (Wild) Mead

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

Original Gravity:

1.043

Final Gravity:

1.003

ABV (standard):

5.2%

IBU (tinseth):

0.0

SRM (morey):

4.7

Mash pH

n/a

Cost €

n/a

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Fermentables

Amount	Fermentable	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

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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Last Updated: 2020-08-15 21:36 UTC

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Cost for

Gallons

Cost by

Final Yield

	Cost €	Cost %
Fermentables	€
Steeping Grains (Extract Only)	€
Hops	€
Yeast	€
Other	€
Cost Per Barrel	€ 0.00
Cost Per Pint	€ 0.00
Total Cost	€ 0.00

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