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Gone back to winemaking after a long hiatus.
Having a go at a gallon of mead, but after 24hrs no fermentation.
Have some ideas but open to suggestions.

[Cynical]

Well anyway.
The solution was to add a handful of sultanas which act as yeast nutrient, and now it's on it's way.

[bigwheel]

Slow action usually translates into not right liquid temps. What was the
temp when you pitched? What and how much did you pitch? If it was much
above 90 it will kill the yeast..if its much below 80 f. it will be slow
to work. Too much sugar will also stunt it bad. Give some scoop..lol.




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bigwheel

[Dick Adams]

How much honey did you use?
How well did you mix it?
Is there any honey at the bottom of the container?

If you used dry yeast, did you rehydrate it?
Did you add yeast nutrient?
If not, do so!

Try shacking the container violently!

Dick

[bigwheel]

Cynical;1827146 Wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 April 2013 18:44:29 UTC+1, Cynical wrote:-

> Gone back to winemaking after a long hiatus.
>
> Having a go at a gallon of mead, but after 24hrs no
> fermentation.
>

> Have some ideas but open to suggestions.-

>
> Well anyway.
> The solution was to add a handful of sultanas which act as
> yeast nutrient, and now it's on it's way.

Glad you got it worked out. I had been thinking on this and seems to
recall honey in water do not ferment as well as sugar. Think molasses
can be balky too.




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bigwheel

[Cynical]

On Sunday, 7 April 2013 18:44:29 UTC+1, Cynical wrote:

All seems well in Mead World. My first re-adventure in March was Carrot Wine, followed by the Mead. Then in July I made some Red Grape Wine using cartons of grape juice. With my final experiment of the year being Pea Pod Wine. I used the one sachet of yeast keeping the culture alive in a container in the fridge and taking it out once a week to feed it. So that's fun.
Carrot Wine being my test wine, I racked off after three months as it was an ugly colour, so it was that wine on Saturday I attempted to make my first batch to bottle. Things were catastrophic. Firstly my tubing was too wide a gauge and stirred up wine so I'm actually gonna have to put my hand in my pocket and buy more tubing, better tubing, with a nice straight tube for jar end. So the plan is to attempt bottling again in a couple of weeks. Secondly I boiled my corks and when I trailed my corking process I was shocked to see brown gunk coming out of them. So I googled that in the OLD days people used to boil corks but nowadays they're treated so you put them with a good hand corker. So I had to put my hand very deeply in my pocket to order a good hand corker to bottle my cheap hobby.
However I'm still enjoying it and looking forward to results, despite getting a mouthful of the Carrot Wine during bottling and needing to spit it out pretty damn fast.