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• Posted in thread: Starting fermentation speed and nutrients on 10-13-2012 at 12:41 AM
  Thanks for the response. The yeast nutrient is a small bag of coarse white granules sold in
  bulk, so unfortunately I don't know offhand exactly what it is. It seems I missed some juice in
  the cleanup ...

• Posted in thread: Starting fermentation speed and nutrients on 10-12-2012 at 11:13 PM
  Yesterday I started a one gallon batch of mead with 2.5 lbs of honey and a gallon batch of
  cider with apple juice and 17 oz of dextrose. OG of both is near 1.090. I'm using Red Star
  champagne yeast in...

• Posted in thread: JAOM - still very cloudy after 2 months. on 10-11-2012 at 10:08 PM
  I made it once and it took almost 3 months to clarify. At that point I could, as a forum member
  advised, read a newspaper through it. I would be patient for now.No worries on the SG. It's
  JOAM. You're...

• Posted in thread: How much to back sweeten a mead? on 10-11-2012 at 09:42 PM
  hmm... just calculated that I will have to use over 17 ounces of dextrose to get a gallon of
  apple juice up to 1.090. That's more dextrose than there is fruit sugar in the juice. Bad idea?
  I know the ...

• Posted in thread: How much to back sweeten a mead? on 10-11-2012 at 08:19 PM
  Old thread, but it's asking about the same question I have. I'm getting ready to do some 1
  gallon experiment batches. Tell me if this makes sense. Per this site and converting their
  liters to gallons,...

• Posted in thread: Man, I love Apfelwein on 05-27-2010 at 02:29 AM
  This step in the recipe surprised me: "Open the packet of Montrachet Yeast and pour it into the
  neck of the funnel."No need to rehydrate the yeast?And thanks, Recluse. My juice is 26g of
  sugar and 30g...

• Posted in thread: What went wrong with my strawberry batches? on 05-27-2010 at 01:10 AM
  Well, I was careful to sanitize all the equipment. I use a no rinse sanitizer, so it's
  relatively idiot proof. Unfortunately, like I said, it was both gallon batches that had
  strawberries in them. It ...

• Posted in thread: Man, I love Apfelwein on 05-26-2010 at 03:51 AM
  A tasty recipe that's really easy to make? Sounds great! I don't have a Sam's Club or Costco
  membership though, so I dropped by Walmart looking for apple juice. No "Tree Top". I got some
  pasteurized a...

• Posted in thread: What went wrong with my strawberry batches? on 05-25-2010 at 09:27 PM
  To me the aroma resembles that of the rubber stoppers. Not quite the same, but I'm definitely
  not getting sulfur out of it. Like I said though, it's not just the aroma. It tastes bad too.
  The strawber...

• Posted in thread: What went wrong with my strawberry batches? on 05-25-2010 at 07:04 PM
  It doesn't smell like sulfur though, at least not to me. Sorry, I don't know the gravities.
  Temperature would have been right around 70 degrees. A generic yeast nutrient from the brewing
  store was add...