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02-01-2010, 05:34 PM
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Since I'm doing primary in glass anyway, should I just keep mine in there until it hits 1.015?
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02-01-2010, 07:20 PM
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Well, first I would go to your local donut shop and get a frosting bucket. Usually they give them out for free and use that for your primary.
Your glass will be fine until 1.015 if you want. I have never brewed fruit in a glass jug, other than JAO. So I really cant help with experience, however through thought..........you probably wanna rack off your lees at around 1.020 due to the taste of yeastiness. You also have a sludge with tons of seeds that with over tanin your mead. IMHO
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02-01-2010, 07:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by YoMomma
Well, first I would go to your local donut shop and get a frosting bucket. Usually they give them out for free and use that for your primary.
Your glass will be fine until 1.015 if you want. I have never brewed fruit in a glass jug, other than JAO. So I really cant help with experience, however through thought..........you probably wanna rack off your lees at around 1.020 due to the taste of yeastiness. You also have a sludge with tons of seeds that with over tanin your mead. IMHO
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Thanks for the tips. I wouldn't have thought of a frosting bucket. But I have lots (too many according to SWMBO  ) of buckets already that I can use. It wasn't a matter of not having the equipment, it was more that I hadn't realized how vital a bucket was for a mead primary.
How are you planning to rack? This strawberry sludge has me anxious. I was thinking of tying a hop sock around my auto-siphon.
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Primary: Cider
Secondary: Basic Sparkling Cyser, Wildflower Mead, Habanero Mead, Strawberry Pizzazz, Clover trad'l mead, Orange Blossom trad'l mead, Hefty Braggot
Keg: Bourbon Barrel Porter, Centennial Blonde Ale, Cider, Jalapeño Blonde Ale, Pliny the Bastid
Bottled: Joe's Ancient Orange, Joe's Quick Gape Mead
On deck: Prickly Pear Mead, Chocolate Mead
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02-01-2010, 09:22 PM
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I only did a 1 gallon batch... so I am using a 1 gallon carboy. I know once I take out the 3 lbs of strawberries (and sludge)... I am going to have a lot of headspace. There isn't any problem topping off with water is there?
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02-02-2010, 12:09 AM
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Just an update on my batch of Strawberry Pizazz......I am following Hightests standard Nutrient additions. I am punching the cap twice daily and aerating for 2 minutes. My strawberries have all but disappeared and turned into a foamy sludge "cap" now. Foam has died down some during aeration.
1/28/10: Temp: 70F and S.G. 1.080 (light pink color, great strawberry smell)
2/01/10: Temp 70F and S.G. 1.020 (light pink color, pleasing strawberry/honey smell, strong, HOT taste right now.
Tomorrow I'll be racking off the sludge into secondary and airlocking.
Dan
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02-02-2010, 03:15 AM
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Racked mine to secondary. What a fight. Shoulda used a grain bag!
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02-02-2010, 03:25 AM
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HOLY BEJEEBERS...I racked this to secondary and topped off with water, and the renewed activity is sending foam up through my airlock!! Got it in the kitchen sink for the night!! I am getting about 4 or 5 bubbles per second right now!!! 
Dan
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02-02-2010, 11:09 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flyweed
HOLY BEJEEBERS...I racked this to secondary and topped off with water, and the renewed activity is sending foam up through my airlock!! Got it in the kitchen sink for the night!! I am getting about 4 or 5 bubbles per second right now!!!
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What was the SG when you racked?
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02-02-2010, 07:05 PM
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my SG last night before racking was 1.020 at 70F..this was a measurement taken after punching the cap again , and aerating and then letting settle a bit. taken off the bottom of my fermentation vessel..so only liquid, no chunks, seeds or nothing.
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02-02-2010, 08:58 PM
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