I find my self in need of some advice. I am new to home brewing (just started my 5th batch of mead) and the new batch I started 48 hours ago has yet to start bubbling. I made a cranberry/pomegranate mead, recipe is as follows:
3 liters unsweetened cranberry juice
1 liter water
1600 grams frozen pomegranate fruit with the seeds
2kg clover honey
1 pack mangrove jacks mead yeast
1 gram pectic enzyme
Starting gravity - 1.132
I have also planned on adding .5 gram Fermaid K and 1 gram DAP every 24 hours for the first three days .
When I got home from work yesterday, I did see some action in the airlock although it seemed slow. After I opened up the bucket and added the first increment of nutrients I replaced the lid and thought it was good to go. This morning when I took a look no action in the airlock. The airlock is showing that the lid is not leaking but there is no fermentation happing. Can PH levels screw up the fermentation that bad? or am I just missing something. Thanks in advance for the help.
3 liters unsweetened cranberry juice
1 liter water
1600 grams frozen pomegranate fruit with the seeds
2kg clover honey
1 pack mangrove jacks mead yeast
1 gram pectic enzyme
Starting gravity - 1.132
I have also planned on adding .5 gram Fermaid K and 1 gram DAP every 24 hours for the first three days .
When I got home from work yesterday, I did see some action in the airlock although it seemed slow. After I opened up the bucket and added the first increment of nutrients I replaced the lid and thought it was good to go. This morning when I took a look no action in the airlock. The airlock is showing that the lid is not leaking but there is no fermentation happing. Can PH levels screw up the fermentation that bad? or am I just missing something. Thanks in advance for the help.