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Well anyway. The solution was to add a handful of sultanas which act as yeast nutrient, and now it's on it's way.

Slow action usually translates into not right liquid temps. What was the temp when you pitched? What and how much did you pitch? If it was much above 90 it will kill the yeast..if its much below 80 f. it will be slow to work. Too much sugar will also stunt it bad. Give some scoop..lol.

How much honey did you use? How well did you mix it? Is there any honey at the bottom of the container?

If you used dry yeast, did you rehydrate it? Did you add yeast nutrient? If not, do so!

Try shacking the container violently!

Dick

Glad you got it worked out. I had been thinking on this and seems to recall honey in water do not ferment as well as sugar. Think molasses can be balky too.

All seems well in Mead World. My first re-adventure in Ma rch was Carrot Wine, followed by the Mead. Then in July I made some Red Gra pe Wine using cartons of grape juice. With my final experiment of the year being Pea Pod Wine. I used the one sachet of yeast keeping the culture al ive in a container in the fridge and taking it out once a week to feed it. So that's fun. Carrot Wine being my test wine, I racked off after three months as it was an ugly colour, so it was that wine on Saturday I attempted to make my first batch to bottle. Things were catastrophic. Firstly my tubin g was too wide a gauge and stirred up wine so I'm actually gonna have to p ut my hand in my pocket and buy more tubing, better tubing, with a nice str aight tube for jar end. So the plan is to attempt bottling again in a coupl e of weeks. Secondly I boiled my corks and when I trailed my corking process I was shocked to see brown gunk coming out of them. So I googled that in the OLD days people used to boil corks but nowadays they 're treated so you put them with a good hand corker. So I had to put my ha nd very deeply in my pocket to order a good hand corker to bottle my cheap hobby. However I'm still enjoying it and looking forward to results, despite getting a mouthful of the Carrot Wine during bottling and needing t o spit it out pretty damn fast.