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Good call - thanks much...!

Wow - thanks for all the info. Great stuff and I will work with this accordingly...

ok thanks.. yeah i try to have them all on heat pads which seem to be the right temp - seedlings germination mats- a very stable 65-70 for the materials it seems..a little less if the room gets colder..

Just bought some of both -thanks for the tips and your experience again.. very helpful.

Aweomse input! that's what i am wondering about - guess i need to buy some bentonite -tho i do have bentonite clay around.. think it would work? is it super fine grade the stuff you used or how was it applied? it doesn't mix into the solution?

Do folks think it's bad to have temps swing say from 50-70 here and there over weeks during fermentation in carboys? I am working with mead and cider only... I just don't have a super stable fermenting room...

thanks for the input.. i haven't been cold crashing yet tho - just settling and fermenting a little more to get a sparkle by adding some honey bug materials a week ago. As it had gone still over months in primary.

thanks for the input!

I'm at 80 gallons for this year - 20 are cider or cyser tho..

Hey folks, Excited to learn more, been at this about 10 years but need to up my learning game as I now have a pallet of bottles and hundreds of lbs of honey from my bees to use. I also make cider from local apples and have planted about 100 cider apple trees over the past 20 years. Need to...

Hi folks, Nice to meet people here, I am brand new here but have been experimenting with meads for about 10 years. How important do people think it is to let the carboy get totally or very clear before bottling? I have bottled recently some fairly clear to very clear ciders and I still see some...

Hi folks, Nice to meet people here, I am brand new here but have been experimenting with meads for about 10 years. How important do people think it is to let the carboy get totally or very clear before bottling? I have bottled recently some fairly clear to very clear ciders and I still see...