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Fireball mead just after mixing it all together

It's fermenting

Just after racking

Added the Cinnamon oil

My fireball mead attempt ;)

I added the cinnamon oil finally. I will check again in a few days to see how well the oil dissolves into the mead.

Sounds good. I would like to rack mine one more time before I add the cinnamon oil so I will probably do that this weekend.

Air lock smells great today so I'm sure it's just a Nottingham strain living in my brew room. :p What kind of sour beer did you make?

Does your brew room develop it's own yeast culture in the air after you have been brewing with the same yeast for awhile? I have been using Nottingham a lot lately. I brewed a 5 gallon batch and let it cool down in the bucket over night. In the morning I opened the lid to check the temp and...

That is definitely a better color than what I got right now. When I'm done with this one I think I'll make a few small batches and try a few of these ideas and see how it goes.

madcowbrewing: I went with 10 per gallon so that you get roughly 1 fireball per 12 ounce bottle. I may try a smaller batch like yours to see how 2 per bottle taste WVMJ: I'm not sure about the fireball/mentos reaction, not sure I want to try it with my first 5 gallon of this :P I will be...

Just moved my fireball mead from the glass carboy into a bottling bucket and back to the carboy. I don't have another carboy so that's what I had to do lol :P oh and I did kick up a bit of sediment unfortunately so you will see some of the red from the fireballs in the bucket.

Shouldn't be a problem. Your beer will still be putting out some CO2 even in the secondary.

Air lock activity can take up to 3 days, I have seen up to 5 days when the days have been really cold :) RDWHAHB My first "kit" beer was an IPA, unfortunately my palate was not prepared for an IPA at the time lol Me favorite "kit" beer was brewers best Red Ale.

From what I have read it takes a long time for any oil to blend into a mead. an example would be the chocolate mead (liquid sex), takes 2 years if I remember right. I will read more about combining oil and alcohol , I have another 6 months before I add it so I'm not to worried just yet :P I...