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Re: amount of honey in a gallon of mead Specifically, Mindflux's comment Now I have a tub of 24# of honey sitting on the floor next to me. Eyeballing it, it looks like its volume IS about 2 gallons. My volume estimates might be slightly off -- it might be 1.5 gallons -- but that's .75-1.0...

Hi all I have had several disasterous batches of rootbeer and I'm looking for some help. I didn't know of another forum to post this on since it's not beer, wine, or mead/cider. I have two problems. 1. I have no good recipe. My great Aunt just told me she used the extract when she made...

Whoa, wait a second. What's this about Gambrinus? Is there a recipe for a Gambrinus clone out there? My boyfriend is Czech and his favorite beer is Gambrinus. If there's a recipe I want to know it. Please.

Hi all I'm Christine. I got into brewing because my coworkers knew my addiction to doing everything from scratch. (And I usually bring in samples of my creations to work or work parties.) I was complaining about how there are no good rootbeers on the east coast. And then a couple of them...

ooh ooh ooh Ok so I have to admit I've only finished one mead but this one was incredible. I followed the wildflower mead recipe on the bottom of this page: http://www.greydragon.org/brewing/mead.html And used raw Colorado wildflower honey from...

I would second that 10 lbs of honey is light for mead. I did my first batch of mead a bit ago and used 7 lbs for 2 gallons. It was incredible. I loved that recipe and just ordered 20 lbs of the same honey (Honeyville's raw Colorado wildflower honey) to do a five gallon batch (following the...