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A while back I posted this thread about a very sluggish Chocolate Cherry mead I was attempting. It figured that it has been a year since I started that mead, why not start another gallon? Found the same cherries I used last time. In my newbie haste I didn't understand the significance of...

I put this guy away and pretty much forgot about it for the past three months. It had about a half inch of sediment, and still had bubble rising in it so I racked it and took a reading. 1.106. :/ Ugh. dropped .004 in the past three months. This guy is going no where fast, yet appeared to...

Seems like the constant advice for any newbie who thinks they might have goofed something up is to wait, then wait some more. Then after you've waited, wait a little longer. I'm just wondering, what would it actually take to consider a batch actually being bad, and need to be dumped? How many...

Month and half later. There has been a steady stream of tiny white bubbles slowly working its way up to the next since the repitch, so I took a reading. In the last month and half it has gone from 1.132 down to 1.110. Any thoughts on this progress?

I started a gallon of this at the beginning of novemeber. I just cracked it for the second racking since being in secondary and stole a sample. Still doesn't taste or smell like blueberries, or anything else positive. The smell was repellant, and I couldn't finish the ounce that I sampled. Sound...

Maybe wiat a while to see if all the fruit drops. I had a batch clear in about five weeks from start this summer. At five and half weeks all the fruit hit the bottom and I bottled it. This was in august and nothing has exploded yet, and the one's I have opened had very minimal pffft to them.

I've spent a good 90 minutes trying to root up the answer to this on various wine/mead sites and am starting to doubt my ability to use search engines. So here it goes. What is the method for calculating final alcohol percentage in a recipe such as this blueberry mead in the recipe section of...

Made the new starter Weds after work, built it up until I went to bed last night and pitched it then. Today after work the airlock is moving at about a bubble every 30 seconds. Seems to be in better shape now. Thanks.

I think I got you now. No new yeast is being added in your plan, just changing the living conditions for a sample of the existing yeasts to it can have an easier time of multiplying to a large enough population to take over the sugars right? Any really rough timeline on how long this new...

Thanks for the recommendation. Just wondering though, since you mention nutrient twice, was one of those suppose to be energizer?

It was well shook in a gallon jug before I put it into my primary pail. Gave it some deep, non tender stirs for the first fews days after that as well. It seemed to be quite happy back then. There still is visible activity of little tiny bubble going on, so maybe I'm overreacting a bit...

Figured the high starting gravity would make it tough to get going, but wasn't sure how tough. There is a link to the recipe in post #1.

I originally started this at here the winpress.us forums, but these boards seem to be way more active in the mead section, so I thought I'd ask my question here instead. Quick & Dirty summary. 1. 1 gallon of Chocolate-Cherry Mead 2. Original SG: 1.122, which I believe I goofed during the...