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• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 06-09-2011 at 01:54 AM
  Ok, but YOU'RE the one who posted, "Does this look infected?", not me! And I can tell you that
  in these many, many years, I've never once had lacto, flowers of wine, mold, acetero bacter,
  cork taint, ...

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 06-08-2011 at 10:54 PM
  CO2 will only bubble out when the pressure is greater inside the chamber than outside. What is
  making the CO2 bubble out..more CO2 from the mead, of course (either from residual yeast
  fermentation and...

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 06-07-2011 at 08:18 PM
  I would assume (though I dont know for sure), that the issue is that once you have racked to
  secondary and there is no more fermentation, there is no more CO2 being produced, so what ever
  O2 was in th...

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 06-07-2011 at 04:11 PM
  Yup! I read through many posts the forum...lot's of "do this to prevent oxidation", but no
  substantiation behind it. I suspect this is something grandfathered in from barrel
  aging/conditioning, where ...

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 06-06-2011 at 10:10 PM
  Oh, just clarify, I'm speaking specifically of a non-permeable glass carboy with a fermentation
  lock; not a gas permeable vessel such as a plastic bucket or oak barrel. :)

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 06-06-2011 at 09:59 PM
  Well, it's your mead. Oxidation is very real, as is a chance of infection. Headspace in the
  fermenter is a HUGE risk. If you chose to ignore that risk, it's up to you. But no one will
  tell you that it...

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 05-30-2011 at 11:50 PM
  Unless you have some headspace..............................Co2 does protect to a degree. But
  it's not like it stays in there forever. Gasses will seek equilibrium. Co2 will bubble out of
  the airlock....

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 05-30-2011 at 11:39 PM
  Make sure the mead is topped off! I can't tell in that picture but you do NOT want any
  headspace at all. If you've got headspace, you could easily allow some mold or something to
  take hold. You want t...

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 05-30-2011 at 07:35 PM
  The only thing that made me ? is the use of the sweet mead yeast. They're finnicky and IMO a
  total PITA to use. People often grab them as it says "mead" in the title/name. There's plenty
  of yeasts tha...

• Posted in thread: Does this look infected? on 05-30-2011 at 06:06 PM
  No, I'm not showing a body part here :p...I've been making beer for years now. My wife decided
  that she wanted to make some mead, and I let her own the process. When it came to sanitation,
  she did som...