no the honey wasn’t wet, in fact it was a bit on the dry side (was recovered from a plastic pallet that wet honey had leaked onto - not that clean so couldn’t go into the batch). Being on the dry side it was hard to get to fully dissolve - thus the est on the OG.

It was 5L of honey and I used the GotMead calc. I’m not too worried if it’s on the upper end of a starting OG and it stays a little on the sweet side.

For fermentation time, I’m in no hurry and I expect it will sit in primary for the next 3 or 4 weeks.

I’ll probably give it a second dose of firmaid tomorrow