[Ponte Alto] CORRECTION - Mead Making - Nov 8th

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Terafan,
      many thanks. now what to do. I may not have killed the yeast, as things are bubbling  along.  there now being presumably o'er much honey, what will occur? and there was too much stuff altogether, so it's over flowed up into the airlock. can I just put in a clean airlock?
Many thanks for your sage advice to a bumbler..... 

Tselmeg the Mongol

  A minor correction to my math...

If you put in 3 16 oz containers of honey (6 cups), then you put 4 1/2 lbs
of honey in (not 4 as I said earlier)...

cheers,
  Terafan

> Greetings unto Tselmeg from Terafan,
>
>     You are confusing ounces as a measurement of weight with ounces as a
> measurement of volume.  Although they are both called "ounces" they
> aren't the same thing.    For example, 1 cup of melted lead and 1 cup
> of water will NOT weigh the same amount (although they are both 1 cup
> or 8 ounces of volume).
>
> Honey is 12lbs per gallon, which translates to 3/4 lb per (8 oz) cup.
> (16 cups in a gallon.  12 lbs / 16 cups = 3/4 lb per cup.
>
> If you put in 6 cups, then you put in 4 lbs of honey.  Your 1 cup of
> remaining honey is 3/4 lb, which is perhaps close enough (to the 1
> remaining lb you should have) given that your three sets of 16 oz
> measuring cups may not have been exactly precise.
>
> As to the temperature, yes, 109 deg F is too hot.   You may have killed
> the yeast.    The best temp to pitch the yeast is when the must has cooled
> below 80 deg F.
>
> It won't hurt anything to re-pitch with a fresh packet of yeast.
>
> cheers,
>    Terafan
>
>>
>> HELPPP!!!! :-( or is it  :-)
>>
>> My one gallon recipe calls for 3.5 Lbs of honey. 3 16 oz measuring cups
>> only left me  with 8 oz of honey. what am I doing wrong. and I'm afraid
>> I
>> put the yeast in too soon. the must was about 109F(of course I measured
>> it
>> right after I put in the yeast) too hot? (It doesn't seem as if 5 lbs of
>> honey translates correctly,although certainly the  bottle says 80 oz.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tselmeg
>>
>>
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  A minor correction to my math...

If you put in 3 16 oz containers of honey (6 cups), then you put 4 1/2 lbs
of honey in (not 4 as I said earlier)...

cheers,
  Terafan

> Greetings unto Tselmeg from Terafan,
>
>     You are confusing ounces as a measurement of weight with ounces as a
> measurement of volume.  Although they are both called "ounces" they
> aren't the same thing.    For example, 1 cup of melted lead and 1 cup
> of water will NOT weigh the same amount (although they are both 1 cup
> or 8 ounces of volume).
>
> Honey is 12lbs per gallon, which translates to 3/4 lb per (8 oz) cup.
> (16 cups in a gallon.  12 lbs / 16 cups = 3/4 lb per cup.
>
> If you put in 6 cups, then you put in 4 lbs of honey.  Your 1 cup of
> remaining honey is 3/4 lb, which is perhaps close enough (to the 1
> remaining lb you should have) given that your three sets of 16 oz
> measuring cups may not have been exactly precise.
>
> As to the temperature, yes, 109 deg F is too hot.   You may have killed
> the yeast.    The best temp to pitch the yeast is when the must has cooled
> below 80 deg F.
>
> It won't hurt anything to re-pitch with a fresh packet of yeast.
>
> cheers,
>    Terafan
>
>>
>> HELPPP!!!! :-( or is it  :-)
>>
>> My one gallon recipe calls for 3.5 Lbs of honey. 3 16 oz measuring cups
>> only left me  with 8 oz of honey. what am I doing wrong. and I'm afraid
>> I
>> put the yeast in too soon. the must was about 109F(of course I measured
>> it
>> right after I put in the yeast) too hot? (It doesn't seem as if 5 lbs of
>> honey translates correctly,although certainly the  bottle says 80 oz.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tselmeg
>>
>>
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