Mead stalled early: more nutrient? Other tips?
Recipe: vessel size: 10L?? / 1.5kg honey / 10g M05 ''Mangrove Jacks' mead yeast / + 6g yeast nutrient / some fresh zests of no-spray tangelo.
I racked this mead into the new vessel, to remove it from the citrus skins (skins on for about 4 weeks, prob too long but anyway).
Before I racked, it had stopped bubbling at all after a maybe 2 weeks. Even with aeration from racking, no activity. The mead is still sweet.
It's cold here, getting down to 5-8Celsius at night, but not crazy cold, and the room with the mead is generally 15 or 16degrees or up to early 20s if the fire is on. I kept it insulated with a wool blanket so it doesn't fluctuate so much.
Do I need to add more nutrient? (I just added at the start. Has worked this way in the past). Should I warm the vessel up for a few days?
Would love some advice!
My last mead batch got drier than this one, but still stalled and had sweetness after 10months (I forgot about it and just tasted recently) still no idea what happened there.