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I need a sanity check. I started a one gallon batch of a cherry melomel at the end of last week. I followed a traditional schedule of adding nutrients at the sugar breaks but then something odd happened. It stopped fermenting. Entirely and within minutes of adding the nutrients. The airlock...

Greetings all. I've made two separate batches of Cyser, two different recipes, but both used Nottingham ale yeast. Both batches were extremely good, but had a definite ale bite after taste. Is there another type I should try instead?

Good morning, I currently have 3 gal of cherry cyser in the primary. It seems to be bubbling away quite happily, but I noticed that a brown slime is starting collect in the fruit cap as the foam dissipates. I can't detect anything off about it and everyhing was sterilized within an inch of...

Howdy. I have a quick question about improving mouthfeel in general. If you end with an end result that seems a bit thin or week, where back sweetening isn't enough, and flavoring isn't an option, will Maltodextrin do the trick? Seems to have a lot of promise based on the beer brewing posts...

Greetings all, I am working on trying to put together a mead recipe that will taste like a mixed berry cobbler. I've got about 12 pounds of mixed fruit ready to go, but wondering what I can use to get that nice warm cobbler kinda flavor to go with it. I was thinking something simple like...