December 6, 2007 – 7:01 pm
Tonight I checked the specific gravity of the strawberry guava wine. It’s now down to 1.055. I added another 0.5 gram of Fermaid, squeezed out the strainer bag again, and put it back in the fermentation chamber.
This batch took a while to really get started fermenting, so, after my experience with the strawberry guava melomel, [...]
December 6, 2007 – 6:56 pm
Tonight I checked the chemistry of the strawberry guava melomel must.
Specific gravity: 1.093
pH: 3.34
Titratable Acidity: 0.55
All within range. I made up a yeast starter with about 250 ml of the must, plus the yeast, yeast nutrient (DAP), and the Fermaid, and left it covered in the kitchen until it was nice and foamy: about 2 [...]
December 5, 2007 – 6:43 pm
Tonight I began making an experimental one-gallon batch of strawberry guava melomel (fruit-flavored mead), adapted from a recipe for kiwi fruit melomel in Making Wild Wines & Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & Moreby Pattie Vargas and Rich Gulling. I’ll list the ingredients up front, and then post each step of the [...]
