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• Posted in thread: Girlfriend-Flinging Mead Oddity on 01-31-2013 at 05:50 PM
  Hah! Good to know that the problem was with me and not with the mead! Priorities and all.
  ;)Thanks all!

• Posted in thread: Girlfriend-Flinging Mead Oddity on 01-31-2013 at 12:53 PM
  Bluespark & Inner10: It doesn't smell bad at all, actually. It has a honey-lemon smell. I'm
  trying to think how to describe it...have you ever had soda come out of your nose? That bubbly
  burning sensa...

• Posted in thread: Girlfriend-Flinging Mead Oddity on 01-30-2013 at 05:04 PM
  So here's a strange thing: I'm fermenting a one gallon test-mead using the following recipe...•
  1 Gallon Water • 3 lbs. Orange Honey • 1 Lemon's worth of juice• 1/2 tsp Nutmeg • WLP023 Burton
  Ale Yeas...

• Posted in thread: Mead Bottle Label on 01-24-2013 at 02:03 AM
  This is the label I came up with for the various meads I might brew. This one says "ancient
  orange" as it was the first batch I used these labels on. I print them out on transparent decal
  paper and at...

• Posted in thread: Cyser Question on 01-21-2013 at 04:42 PM
  Well, I got the temp back up to around 70F and the fermentation has kicked back up again!

• Posted in thread: Cyser Question on 01-18-2013 at 07:24 PM
  Fermentation temperature and pH would be good to know.It looks like you are at about 12% ABV,
  and Lalvin ICV D-47 has an acohol tolerance of 14%, so it should be good for a couple more ABV
  percents.I ...

• Posted in thread: Cyser Question on 01-18-2013 at 05:27 PM
  Hello all! I started a cyser about two months ago (my second attempt at making mead) and the FG
  seems to have stopped at 1.040. It's sweet but not cloyingly so (to me) but I'm worried that
  the taste w...

• Posted in thread: Show us your Mead in a photo!!! on 05-29-2012 at 04:17 PM
  My first mead - a minor variation of Joe's Ancient Orange Mead (no cinnamon or cloves). It's a
  little over two months old at this point and has just be racked into its secondard home. Not
  too terribly...