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wet bread dough. started about a week ago seems slow going.

I have a mixed berry mead, long story short it fermented dry cleared awesome bottled for a month with zero fallout on the bottom of my bottles it taste good looks good everything went good but it smells like vomit. not horrible like vomit but that's what you think when you start smelling it. any...

I have 3 lbs of clover honey 1 gallon carboy. d-47 1 cinnamon stick 1 clove box of raisins ( small ) 2 cut up red apples skin and all. I put it all together from the start and it smells like wet do there is not one hint of honey, apple, cinnamon or wine. none of the smells im used to...

yeah i can i was just more wondering if anybody has done this cold crashing thing and had any luck.Im worried my fermentation might kick back up a soon as the mead gets warm again.

my hydrometer reads 1.010 on the light side and my fermentation is going strong, i want to stop this so it doesnt finish to dry i do not care for dry mead that has to be backsweetened. I would like to kill it where it sits? I know to chill it re rack it onto sorbates or whatever else you choose...

i used 15 lbs of clover honey about 4 ish gallons of spring water to = 5 gallons of must 2.5 tsp of nutrient 2.5 tsp of energizer 1 packet of lavalin d-47 I did not get a og by my dumbassness ha ha but 12 days in when i racked it into secondary i had a 1.020 gravity reading, and it...

Any suggestions on how to carbanate my mead, im open for suggestions, the 2/3 pf a cup for 5 gallon thing did not do much for me las go around so any suggestions please explain your process please..................cheers more beers.:mug:

Do you do something to kill the yeast or cold crash it or how do you stop it from fermenting more once you reach 1.020????:mug:

yeah 1.020 and it started bubbling again i think it just needed to get warm again. I did not add any nutrients im assumeing it will eat the rest of the sugars and work out just fine. just needs time, what do you recommend on the time limit of the second racking, i was going to let it sit for a...

2.0 on my hydrometor and how much nutrient do you think i should add, im new to the mead stuff but i drank a cup and i like it ill age it and call it good. but any advice helps thanksand it is not active visually at all no champagne bubbles inside the carboy and not even trying to bubble the...

heres a question i have a total must amount of 5 gallon 15 lbs of honey 1 packet of d-47 2.5 tsp of energier 2.5 tsp of nutrient stirred it heated it all that jazz It has been fermenting for 12 days in a 72degree room my hydro reading is 2.0 but it is not sweet at all and taste good...

i know your right i use such simple and plane ingredients and i keep my temps good so i feel comfortable without testing a bunch but yeah one day im sure the bubbles will get me.

I see thats pretty much what i do i just think you might be a little more patient than me ha ha. AS for the bubbles in the airlock not mattering i go back and forth, they go hand andn hand with fermenting and my test the bubbles start off fast and slowly die off just as my readings show the...

hello. From what i understand with mead you have your primary until yeast settles some in the bottom then rack into clean carboy and put the airlock back on, then do again and again until the yeast is done settleing and your fermantation is done. I am on my 3rd racking and there is no bubbling...