Recent content by freaknumber3

Educate me. What is invert?

Yes, delicious! Was thinking of trying a different yeast. The k1-v1116 works great but I'm thinking maybe a little too great. My gut is telling me that it may be stripping away flavor also. I'll look into the kveik yeast. I've never used it before..

Hi. I started making mead last November so that puts me at around 9 months experience. I've brewered beer for years. Since I started I've made well over a dozen different flavors, most of which are aging as best as they can as I have a hard time staying out of them. One recipe I kind of...

Already tried the stirring a couple times. It's plenty warm already, around 70 degrees. I have other fermentation going without issue. Ph at 3.9. Made a yeast starter and added it last night. Haven't checked on it today yet. What about if I blended it with another mead in active...

My mead is stuck. I've done this recipe a few times now with great success. This time however it stopped fermenting at 1.042. OG was 1.130. It's an orange mead. 1 gal. 3# honey. 1 can of juice concentrate (no preservatives, I've used it before with no issues), 2oz lactose, 2 oranges...

1474 Plus 5 gal Tomahawk ipa Plus 5 gal Florida sunshine pale ale Plus 5 gal Kent hollow leg wheat beer Plus 5 gal Plain Jane Ale Total 1494

155 gal plus 2gal jalapeño 3gal plain mead .5 gal huckleberry 1 gal pineapple Total 161.5gal

Also finishing up a gallon of cider made from fresh pressed nice from the store and treetop concentrate. Finished fermenting in under a week using Lavlin k-1116 yeast. Came out very tart and bland. Killed the yeast with sorbate and metabilsulfite. Backsweetened with a whole can of...

Racked a couple one gallon batches to secondary. Played with blending some flavors. Pineapple jalapeño mead 15%abv. Ymmm!