I'm a first time skeeter pee maker. I mixed up my skeeter pee 9 days ago. I increased the recipe by 20% to make a 6 gal batch vs 5. So that may have been my first mistake not sticking with the recipe. I also mixed too much sugar as sg was 1.078 when starting. 24 hours later, I added my slurry from a piesporter kit with elderberry flowers. I had a little less than a quart of slurry.
fermentation went well the first couple days, stopped at 1.062. Wednesday I added some more EC-1118 yeast to the top and did get some action, but sg did not go down the first day. I also added the rest of the yeast nutrient and energizer plus an extra tsp of each before adding the yeast. Today, it was foaming some and churning and it is now at 1.046 so I added the last 32 oz of lemon. I hope it keeps fermenting to dry. It has a slight funny smell, but, i think that may be the elderflowers. temp has been constant 75 via brew belt throug this whole time
so I wonder if I need to do anything else, like add more nutrient or energizer? I have had covered with a towel. When should i put on the lid with an airlock? I was stirring with my drill mounted paddle to add lots of oxygen, but that seemed to stall the ferment. Can too much stiring be bad? Should this be more a gentle stir twice daily?
Besides starting at too high of sg, I probably added too much lemon at first as I held back 32 oz, but since i made a 6 gal batch I should have held back 38 oz. So perhaps it was to sweet and too acidic for the slurry?
fermentation went well the first couple days, stopped at 1.062. Wednesday I added some more EC-1118 yeast to the top and did get some action, but sg did not go down the first day. I also added the rest of the yeast nutrient and energizer plus an extra tsp of each before adding the yeast. Today, it was foaming some and churning and it is now at 1.046 so I added the last 32 oz of lemon. I hope it keeps fermenting to dry. It has a slight funny smell, but, i think that may be the elderflowers. temp has been constant 75 via brew belt throug this whole time
so I wonder if I need to do anything else, like add more nutrient or energizer? I have had covered with a towel. When should i put on the lid with an airlock? I was stirring with my drill mounted paddle to add lots of oxygen, but that seemed to stall the ferment. Can too much stiring be bad? Should this be more a gentle stir twice daily?
Besides starting at too high of sg, I probably added too much lemon at first as I held back 32 oz, but since i made a 6 gal batch I should have held back 38 oz. So perhaps it was to sweet and too acidic for the slurry?