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Thanks progmac. Just to make sure I'm not making a rookie mistake, I am guessing I should boil a small amount of water, add the nutrients to that, pour them in when cooled, and stir. Is that about right? Or just sprinkle them on top?

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Just curious, what is a relatively short time? I'd been planning on sitting on this for a year. I just read about the BOMM (Bray's One Month Mead) and thought I might give it a try.

Sounds good. I'll do that tonight. I have not added nutrients since I put it together. Although I did double the nutrients that the recipe suggested because I was using more honey than the recipe suggested.

I'm sure that's true. It's been 105 degrees here most of the summer and it's hard to keep the house at even 75. My fermentation refrigerator became my kegerator once my wife decided we needed more food in the house than beer. I haven't noticed a harshness in the beers, though.

Thanks for all the info. eadavis80 ... It's a mead, not a beer. So honey is the only fermentable. The batch is 6 gallons. SG 1.105. IslandLizard ... I may have mispoken. I was referring to active fermentation when the airlock is popping enough that I can see it. After 3 or 4 days, the airlocks...

I'm a noob mead maker (this is batch #2 and batch #1 was 15 years ago.) I've mostly done beer & cider. I made a mead on Sunday, July 27, and it began bubbling by about 3pm that day. It's 15 days later and it's still bubbling. It's definitely slowed down. I'm only getting one bubble through...

6 gallons of a blueberry ginger mead Grand total: 806.5

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How did it turn out? I have a gallon of buckwheat honey in my cabinet that I've been wanting to brew with but I was told it was too strong for mead. I'm hoping your braggot recipe might be the perfect use for it. I sent a PM, too, but thought other people might be curious, too. Thanks, Tracy

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