Recent content by William Wallace

Does anyone know of shorter hydrometers? The 10" 250ml ones take a lot of mead from the carboy and exposes it to oxygen so I don't want to dump it back after the reading but after 2 readings, I'm down by almost a bottle. Does anyone have any thoughts or tips on this?

That's a negative. I left it in the same carboy for a while to see if there was anything growing and theres no change yet. I'm feeling good about it. I'm going to keep it on the lees for 2 more weeks and if there's no change I'll move forward racking it

Thank you for the response! I was thinking that's the case to but the way it splotches kinda scare me. I'll keep an eye on it, I plan on adding some peaches and mangos this weekend. I'll keep yall posted

That's interesting, I didn't think about that. It wasn't heated unless it happened before it was bottled but the honey is raw and unfiltered and had a lot of crystallized honey in a couple of the bottles.

Hello everyone, Hoping to get some help with this one. I've been scouring threads but cannot quite find anything like this. I started a traditional batch of mead about a week ago. 3lbs of Great Lakes honey, spring water, D47 yeast and some yeast nutrients. About half of the honey was...

To everyone who responded: we are good. Taste is great and testing just above 15%. Just a bit dry but still sweet and a bit tart.

How'd this turn out for you? I am currently finishing a similar recipe using the same kit. I used 3lb of orange blossom honey and the D47 yeast with 1.5 liters of Treetop apple juice. My understanding is D47 can strip some apple flavors and very sensitive to temperature where the ec-1118, while...

After some research I think you might be right. I am going to rack it into another carboy in the coming days and give it a try. I was very conscious of sanitation and am confident everything was thoroughly sanitized. I was told that because juice is "thicker" than water some of the yeast has a...

It is more like a cloud in the top 3mm. I havnt tried to disturb it but it doesn't look oily. It's holding together on the surface and shortly below. Someone told me that because the applejuice is denser than water some of the yeast has a harder time sinking. I was very careful and had...

Hello everyone, Thanks for having me. I'm very new to brewing and hope to learn a lot.

Hello everyone, im new at home brewing and have tried my hand at cyser. I used 3lb of orange blossom honey, 1.5 liters of Treetop apple juice, D47 Lavlin yeast, and some dry yeast nurients. I am 4 weeks into fermentation and noticed this film at the top of the brew. It was rather frothy in the...