(Hypothetically) let's say I misplaced/forgot a carboy after only one racking. Also, hypothetically, let's say it's been sitting for about a year now, and is a bit funky tasting.
Is it possible to remove/cover/disguise the yeasty taste?
Thanks
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(Hypothetically) let's say I misplaced/forgot a carboy after only one racking. Also, hypothetically, let's say it's been sitting for about a year now, and is a bit funky tasting.
Is it possible to remove/cover/disguise the yeasty taste?
Thanks
what is a carboy?
Shouldn't be the problem... some to many prefer the character of autolyzed yeast, and it is appropriate for some styles. More concerning might be whether the airlock dried out, allowing fruit flies to access the mead. Did you thief a taste or rack it?
And Bradley Bee, a carboy is a large glass jar, typically 5 gallons or 6.5 gallons, used in mead/wine/beer making. So called in England some time ago when they were commonly used for transporting drinking water in a vessel that still could fit in the boot of your car, hence carboy.
Then why do the Brits now refer to carboys as demijohns? Anything to do with outhouses? A low humor at best, I know.
Couldn't say. I believe that technically a demijohn may be a different vessel, used for wine, but I'm not an anglophone.
Demijohns in my experience are teardrop shaped rather than cylindrical and although I have seen a couple in the five or six gallon range are often in the 12-14 gallon range.