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Og was 1.110. Fg was 1.010 12 cups of water, 3 pounds of honey, yeast nutrient and nottingham ale yeast. I want to add honey to it and age it. Its 1 gallon. How much should I add? Should I do anything else other then that plus aging?

Just opened my first homemade mead. Aged it only 3 months. Yes I know it's a very young mead. But I was curious. Anyway, i could smell/taste the honey taste but it had an over powering alcohol smell and taste. Almost like a hard liquor. Everything I have been reading basicly just says i need to...

Wanting to make my fiance a gallon of watermelon wine for her birthday in a few months. I've seen several different methods but I thought I would ask here. Since I ask most everything here. I'm making a basic recipie. Watermelon Sugar Nottingham Ale Yeast (and nutrient) Here are my questions...

Sweet. Thanks guys. I still cant find any info or picture of someone aging a store bought juice like a fruit punch or something for a long time. So my plan is get a gallon of fruit punch with zero preservatives in it. Regular white sugar and I think maybe nottingham ale yeast and get to it. I...

I can't find much if any real solid information on this but I'm about to experiment. Has anyone every pitched a yeast into a fruit punch, store bought or homemade, let it do its thing and then aged it say 3-4 months? Or any other juice for that matter? Any of the popular cran-apple or...

Ok. Just bottled my first beer. It was a northern brewer 1 gallon extract kit. I got an Irish red ale recipe. And I modified it a bit... So naturally I followed all the necessary sanitation protocols. No issue there. So on to what I did. I followed the recipe to the letter. Except I visited...

It was raw. How would it affect the fermintation?

Ok. I am gonna be honest. Had no idea what a cyser was. I kept seeing it and thought it was a typo or auto correct. Then I googled it. Lol knowledge. Ok so I made a Cyser. Ok so I have questions. Two weeks not long enough? 4 weeks? Would racking into a secondary fermentation help at all...

Just brewed my first hard cider. Hope everything turns out ok. 1 gallon martinellis apple cider 1 pound of organic honey 1 packet of Nottingham Ale yeast. OG: 1.070 Gonna let it set for 2 weeks and bottle it back in the original bottles after I clean and sanitize them and then enjoy Just a...

I mixed 4 oz of organic honey in boiling water and then crashed it in ice water down to 80 degrees and then pitched it. Slowly swirled it in the carboy. Put my airlock back on and set it back above my fridge in the cabinet. Good? This is my first batch. Its northern brewers all extract Irish red...

Forgot to add the picture lol

Went to add honey to my beer today and found bits of what looks like yeast cake floating. It's been in secondary for a week and I'm about to add 3 oz of honey mixed with water and let it set another week and then on to bottleing. But anyways. What is that?