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Hi all, I'm about to make a cherry melomel, my first melomel, and I'm going to add the fruit to secondary. My question is, because I'd like to avoid monopolizes one of my carboys and because i don't want to deal with getting 7 pounds of cherries down and later back up the neck of a carboy, is...

Ah, thanks, now i can worry even less, i figured moutwasheque was par for the course, but how the heck would i know!

Hey all, Answering my own question...what a great lesson in the need to take hydrometer readings...it read out at .999, practically hit the target, so it looks like another good reason to not trust bubbles...though i think i still would have let it go a bit longer in primary.... Tastes...

Hey all, This is my 5th batch of brew, and first mead, so I'm a newb. Making Barshack Ginger Mead, without fruit, and i feel silly that i followed Papazian's recipe and "rack to secondary after a week or when G is 1.020, whichever is sooner." After racking at 7 days, when bubbles were...

Ah, thank you, finally a clear answer, so basically if a mead recipe calls for the standard 3/4c corn sugar, then I know it's a pretty standard carbonation, and i can tweak it within the chart guidelines if I want more or less. Thanks much, Mark

Hey there, This is my first post. :mug: I'm pretty new to brewing and brand new to mead making...i can seem to find a definitive answer to this question. Can you use standard beer bottles for sparkling mead (w/out creating bombs)? Does it depend on the priming sugar content/the recipe...