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I just bottled my first batch of JAOM so I can see the difference in 6 months to a year. The problem I have is that the hand corker my wife got me left about 1/8 ro 3/16th of an inch of cork above the top of the bottle and left a deep dent in the cork where it did go all the way in. Is it a...

Does anyone use any type of straining material when they rack? I'm looking for something with a tight enough weave to strain out the lees. After someone else mentioned it I was thinking I might be able to make a bucket equivalent of a french press to help with cutting down on loss when racking.

Working on clarifying a couple of 1 gallon mead batches and just had a thought. Since bentonite works by having a negative change to attract the particles in suspension has anyone ever tried setting up awoke strong magnets to see if that works to clarify a mead? I was thinking of a few hard...

Not sure who else lives in the mid west but there were a TON of tornadoes touching down here. With all that going down I STILL couldn't convince my wife that my mead constituted emergency supplies.

Newbie question for the experienced mazers - How do you take hydrometer readings on a 1 gallon batch? Do you pull some of the must out into a tube and then return it to the jug or just put the hydrometer into the jug and try to look through the side?

Just started my first 1 gallon batch of Joe's Ancient Orange Mead. Now to wait a few months and see how it comes out.