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It is 3 gallons.

I have a batch in secondary right now and I meant to take some pictures last week and post them. I will do that today. I have never had mine turn out as light as KnightRyder's pics. Mine always looks much more like cranberry juice. I has a deep red-purple color.

As far as I know, no. As long as you're careful and fill the bottles you should be good. Mead is no different than wine, they will both oxidize. I know some people will use bottled CO2 and blanket each bottle to protect it. I've never had a problem with it and I just fill completely using my...

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/wine-conditioner-500ml.html This is what I used to kill the yeast and resweeten. I'm not sure I would use it again as I don't know the specifics and have learned more now about controlling the fermentation. I have a batch in my basement right now and I have...

Glad to hear it!

I wish I could remember what the newsletter was. Foamy Express doesn't sound familiar but I can't be sure. The other thing is it could have been reprinted in a few.

I went with the Bucksnort Brown that the AHA posted as one of the recipes for the Big Brew. Primarily because I had most of the stuff already on hand.

15305 + 5 gallons of Porter 15310

One advantage to using a washer requires using a ferrous washer. That's not having to use glue for the magnets. They hold themselves on the washer. That way, if you happen to put them both on there the same way, you just have to flip one over. You know, since the magnets should be opposite...

An interesting stance he takes on rehydrating yeast. I would like to know where he gets his information since I've never seen a manufacturer recommend this. I guess it could be argued that dry pitching straight into the fermenter would be rehydrating in wort. But I've seen several references...

More to add: + 3.75 gallons Porter + 1.25 gallons Black IPA + 1.25 gallons Chai Brown Ale 13997.75

One thing I might have missed in an earlier post on this topic and BeerSmith. You mentioned that you are planning to get BeerSmith to use. BeerSmith does a great job of scaling recipes. I've been doing a lot of 1.5 gallon all grain batches recently and using BeerSmith to come up with the...

Actually, 32C is just about perfect for Nottingham, as per the company's data sheet. And it's only a little warm for the Safale US-05, as per their data sheet.

No, it's not a typo, it's the numbers I read. I'm pretty sure I dissolved all the honey. And maybe the increase in gravity is my looking at it a little wrong. I wouldn't consider 1 point too big a deal. My main thing is that at the best the gravity hasn't changed any when the 1 gallon batch...

I forgot to mention that this is living in my basement with the rest of my brews, and the temperature is about 67F.