Hi lads
Can I carb mead the same way as beer?
Either batch or with sugar drops in the bottle
I have aged it for a year and it is lovely stuff so want to finish it out as good as possible?
Is mead carbed?
Just googled, seems to be down to personal taste.
Yes, this should be possible in the same way as beer, what is your ABV? Your yeast might be knackered.
Hi thanks for the response it's 12% and the yeast is probably knackered alright.
It was champagne yeast. But there is no activeity. In a while but it's so slow you cant be sure it on yeast since 25 Dec 2013.
Simplest is to force carb.
Otherwise batch carb as normal seeing as you have already used champagne yeast.
Check the tolerance of the yeast first.
Yes think I will batch carb thanks
As always recommended:
Fill a 500 ml Lucozade bottle with the same mix then you can watch and feel it carb up or not!
iirc when i used champagne yeast in mead it finished at around .990 sg. you may need to use a little yeast with the priming sugar to get it carbed. wills idea with lucozade bottle is good too. what was your final gravity?
What gravity did the batch end up at? What volume of mead are we talking here?
It would be worth carbing a single bottle per Wills suggestion rather than committing the entire batch.
Hi
Gravity of 25 ltr is 118
Gravity of other 6 ltr is 110 they were both treated the same way
The 25 ltr tastes lovely the 6 is too strong it will be mixed I think with the big batch