Search results

long story short i have 5 one gallon batches of mead that have been in stuck fermentation for almost a year. i have seriously tried everything from adding fruit, adding ec 1118 yeast and nutrient to try and start it up and the last thing i can think of is my pH is high, so i tested it and its...

i also posted this in the cider forum but not really sure who to ask don't know what the outcome will be but i have a about a half gallon of mead i made 9 months ago and i think it is in a stuck fermentation because the gravity is at 1.48 i tried drinking some of it but it is way to sweet and...

don't know what the outcome will be but i have a about a half gallon of mead i made 9 months ago and i think it is in a stuck fermentation because the gravity is at 1.48 i tried drinking some of it but it is way to sweet and it gave me instant gut rot. what i am thinking about doing is adding...

This is first time making mead and i have a six and a five gallon carboy fermenting in primary. i pitched the yeast in both of them on Tuesday(six days ago) and they have only dropped from 1.132og to 1.10 and 1.123og to 1.10. this seems slow to me, but maybe i am wrong. today is the first day i...

I am new to making mead and have been looking all over this forum and the internet for a simple answer. some people say degas some say no need to degas, some say it is just as important as nutrient additions and some say if you don't degas it will not harm or change the outcome of your mead. i...

I made four different batches of mead yesterday and one out of the four is not fermenting yet. it has been close to 19 hours since i pitched the yeast and nothing in the airlock. What i did was rehydrate 8 grams of d47 yeast in go ferm per the sticky notes instructions, i mixed it in about 10...

I have never made mead before and i am going to make two batches (a total of 11 gallons) in a few weeks. The first is just a traditional mead, the second is going to be a melomel. Good quality honey is expensive and i need alot so to save money how terrible would it be to mix cheap walmart...

This is the first time making cider so im a little unsure about what is going on. I made three batches of cider using their existing wild yeast. i mixed all three up on 11/16/10 i used all the same juice from a local farm and everything thing is exactly the same minus the different additives...

Just mixed a few batches of cider on 11/14 the natural yeast is really taking off now but i am closing on a house i bought and i need to move it to its new home. Will i harm it in any way if i take it on a 4 mile car ride during the fermentation process. thanks for the help

This will be my second time making hard cider and i really don't know what i am doing but i am going to give it another shot. The first time me and some buddy's made 50 gallons of it in a whiskey barrel and it turned out great(i think by dumb luck), but anyways I am going to try a few different...