Opened my first bottle of hibiscus mead. I think it needs longer to carbonate, or I might have not added enough carbonation sugar. Probably both.

It is pretty drinkable. This is reassuring given it was made using the cheapest available honey and is well under a month old. Voss Kveik yeast and good nutrients do wonders!

Definitely needs some refinement when it comes to sweeteners and acids. This was my first time using acids to balance a mead and I think I should have chosen citric acid or malic acid instead of tartaric acid.

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How much sugar did you add to bottle carb? I’ve found about 1 oz/gallon of table sugar hits just about right.

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I used honey rather than sugar, I don’t remember the exact amount but it was somewhere around 25 to 30 g into between 4 and 5 liters.

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Hmm, image does not seem to be loading for me.

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Have you actually clicked on it? It’s a link to pasteboard as the image is too large to be hosted on lemmy.

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I’m using Jerboa and it just fails to load when clicking it, just appeared as an image in the app.

Tried the browser and it was a link, that worked. Jerboa is weird.

Nice colour ye got there!

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I for one tried it and it didn’t work. Any chance you have an alternate link? I’m now curious and fully invested in your hibiscus experiment.

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The link works fine. Are you using Jerboa or another mobile app like the other guy?

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