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Re: longest fermentation?

I'm wondering what is the longest fermentation you have encountered. I

> have a couple batches of mead that are still fermenting and we're coming > up on two years!!!

I've never had a fermentation last that long, but years ago I heard of a trockenbeerenauslese in Germany that came in at such high Brix that it took about 40 years to ferment.

Of course, this could be urban myth - or at least somewhat exaggerated.

Tom S

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Tom S
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You can try pitching some ec-1118 yeast, it should speed things up if its really still fermenting. You may not want to do this though. Are you sure its still fermenting, and that the slow steady drop in SG is not really attributable to solids dropping slowly out of solution?

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Scot Mc Pherson

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