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So I have created a mead that I managed to take notes on all through creation (a struggle of mine), and I have reached a point where it is 9 months old, the SG stablized at .994, and the lees finally settled at the bottom. The moment I (carefully) picked up the jug, they invaded my crystal clear...

Quite some time ago, I purchased a large amount of dry yeast (Red Star and Lalvin, various varieties). It wasn't until a few months later I read on the packets "Keep Refrigerated". Every time I proof a packet, no bubbles form, but I pitch it anyway, and fermentation usually starts in a few days...

:ban:Hello!:ban: I am planning my very first batch of beer, and I have a few questions and/or concerns that I would like to ask about before I get too involved and end up wrecking myself and my beer. Cooling the wort. I am a poor college student (I know, typical college student looking...

So, after contemplating many meads, and actually starting a few of them, I figure its time I dig around for some answers to a variety of questions, about specific gravity, nutrients, and other additions. Specific Gravity: I know its important to monitoring fermentation and vital in...

Greetings! I am currently (read, literally in the process of, as I type the must is sitting waiting for yeast) starting a batch of mead destined to be a strawberry mango mead. I tried using a Lalvin EC1118 and RC212, but both of them failed to proof. I read the back and saw the words "Keep...

So, I seem to be rather confused about all the different ingredients in beer making, as well as the terminology for various parts of the process. So there are grains, hops, and malt extracts. What are they? What do they do and how do they effect the product? What are typical methods of...

So, I was discussing mead-making to a guy at work, and he gave me an idea that I'm rather curious about, though hesitant to try. He suggested trying to make a "Green Tea Mead". Throughout the rest of the night I formulated a basic plan for such a thing. I would boil the water for the tea...

So, i just racked my first mead into a second jug to remove sediment. i didnt get an exact reading fo the OG, but i did those calculations in the sticky and estimated the OG to be 1.090. I started with one gallon of water and 3# honey, but i dont know how much water i used exactly because the...

Greetings! I work in a Denny's, and we get our pickles in big 5 gallon buckets, with those nice tight sealing lids (complete with a rubber gasket!). So ive been thinking. If i could remove the residual pickle smell, i could have an unlimited number of 5 gallon fermentation buckets! (so long...

Hi again! =D So, ive been browsing around the forum and the interwebz, just trying to learn as much as i can, and ive been seeing things about various yeasts and honey amounts and SG and OG and im feeling slightly overwhelmed, because im fairly certain there is a whole "Science" thing with...

About 3 weeks ago I started my first mead, as cheap as possible with walmart honey, redstar champagne yeast, and a 1 gallon jug of spring water. My friend recently finished his first batch, similar ingredients, and we are hooked. So, naturally, we want to find what works best. We were talking...