Tuesday, October 24, 2006
On science, and bottles
Bottled 4 750mL bottles of maple mead Sunday night (and drank the rest of the gallon). The gallon we stopped active fermentation on ended up at about 5% ABV, which is weak for mead. It’s super sweet, and very tasty. I put the 4 bottles in our buffet (sideboard, whatever you want to call it). We also put stabilizer in another gallon of it. That gallon had 4 weeks of active fermentation, and I’ll probably let it go another week with the stabilizer in it, and then sample it.
The remaining 3 gallons, I’m going to let run the course. I’ve read that it can take up to 6 months for a heavy mead to finish fermenting. Perhaps it will be ready to drink about the time I turn 35.
Brewing, it’s the ultimate hobby for someone that forgets that they have a hobby.