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I've never brewed a beer (only mead) so this may seem silly. At what point does carbonation occur? This may come naturally to beer brewers but everything I've read gives me the impression: it just happens... but how? I have a bucket... I have carboy... I even have grolsch style bottles I...

A local store has unpasteurized apple juice but it has potasium sorbate added. Can something be done to use this or am I just out of luck?

Could someone provide a good link to back sweetening, please. I had a batch get really dry. I bought a yeast that I was told had a tolerance of 12%. I racked to secondary and gave it a taste... it had a some teeth to it. Final gravity put this thing at 16.5%. I was wondering how to properly...

Ive seen people using teabags or loose tea.... What affect does that have? If I steep tea too long it takes a chalky texture to it. So I cant imagine what days/weeks/monthes would do to a mead.

I carboyed my first batch. Tastes good (its cloudy though). I started a second batch. 15 pounds Orange Blossom Yeast Nutrient (half dose) Bentonite Acid Blend Filtered Tap water to 5 gallons A packet of Red Star Cote du Blanc dry yeast. OG: 1.118 I reconstituted the yeast with 1/4...

Ive been reading on containers... PET vs glass vs ..... Yesterday I found something when reading on food grade containters... that was using containers that previously held food. I thought: What if I used 1-gallon water jugs from the store? Put my mead in that instead of buying a gallon...

This is my first homebrew/mead/anything... I did a 3gal mead (wanted to start small): 9lbs Orange Blossom with a Sweet Mead yeast pitched. Original Gravity was 1.120 Taking daily readings, It dropped pretty steadily (4-6/day). It slowed for a bit (2/day) for a couple of days. And guy in the...