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Greetings, I am kind of new to using StarSan solution (and for the record, I brew mead more than beer but that is not important to this question). I am in a position where I want to fill one of my plastic primary buckets halfway up with StarSan solution today to do some equipment cleaning to...

Greetings all, Seems an obvious question, but...I have been using the same plastic primary fermentation bucket that I picked up in a brewshop 20+ yrs ago. I want to get another one, so checked on Amazon, and I found that people frequently complain about buckets whose lid is not airtight. Is...

I don't have any other batch of mead on hand, unfortunately. I just checked the airlock, and it is bubbling once in a while. I just saw it bubble twice with a 2.5 minute interval in between. I presume it was not bubbling anymore in the primary (though I didn't check it much...just assumed it...

Greetings, Not sure how this happened (since it never has before), but I just racked my basic mead from the primary (after about 3 wks) into the carboy, and I didn't have enough to go into the thinner carboy neck. The carboy starts to narrow starting at about 6 inches below the top, and my...

Greetings all! Getting back into brewing mead after being away from it for several years. I prefer my meads to be high abv and dry. For the first few mead batches I did, I used Lalvin DV-10. I was pleased with the performance of the yeast generally, though there were flavor overtones that...

Greetings all! Getting back into mead making after being away for a while because now I am a beekeeper and have more than enough free honey. Having to re-learn some things in the process. One question I had is if there are any rules of thumb for estimating sugar content % of various types of...

Thanks! I warmed water to 115 degrees just to get the honey to dissolve nicely, but I can't imagine that temp would drive off aroma. Otherchuck

Greetings all! I have brewed mead successfully in the past, but appear to have forgotten most of what I used to do in the past, so I am having to re-learn! In the past I have used professionally produced honey from a store, and I am pretty sure I only heated the water for the must to 115...

Greetings! When I started brewing beer a couple decades ago, I just filled a giant bag of bottle-caps I got at my local homebrew store (if 100 miles away from my house counts as 'local'). Finally running thru those, and am about to return to homebrewing (mead this time, as I have beehives)...

Wow, you mean use 32 ounces of my current batch to start the next one? In the instructions that came with my kit (from "The Kombucha Shop") they said that after removing the cultures from one batch and putting it in a glass container, to add one cup of kombucha if I was going to start a new...

Greetings, I recently got a kombucha kit which came with a one gallon brewing jar. The two batches I have made so far came out perfect, so now I want to increase the size of the batch. I have a 2.5 gallon glass jar; can I just multiply the ingredients by 2.5 and use the same scoby that I am...

Greetings all, I have brewed a few batches of mead in the past, but it has been at least a couples years ago now (maybe three) since I brewed my last one. As a beekeeper for the last couple years, I have now perpetually have more than enough honey, so I am returning to the mead-making hobby...

Greetings all, I have made two batches of mead so far, and both turned out fine, but I kept the paradigm very simple as I was just learning; both batches were just honey/water/yeast/nutrients. For additional flavor, I would splash a small amount of ginger liqueur or peach schnapps in the...

Greetings all, I am making my first batch of mead, and it has been in the secondary fermenter for at least three months...no remote signs of fermentation activity for ages (and a hydrometer check indicated what I believe to be a complete ferment). I want to put it in bottles now...

Greetings all! My first batch of mead (not counting the 5-gallon carboy I dropped several years ago...I am seeking to repress that memory) seems to be going well (dry tasting, alc by vol, around 13+%); it is now in the secondary. Since this is my first batch, I wanted to keep it...

Greetings all! Well, despite some newbie screw-ups (I'll spare you the details), things seem to be going well in my first attempt at mead. OG was 1.100, and now...after 3 wks in primary...the gravity is around .995! I tasted it today, and it tastes like a dry petillant champagne. Certainly...