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Yesterday I started a one gallon batch of mead with 2.5 lbs of honey and a gallon batch of cider with apple juice and 17 oz of dextrose. OG of both is near 1.090. I'm using Red Star champagne yeast in both and added 1/2 teaspoon of yeast nutrient to both. It's now 22 hours later. The air...

(sorry for the length, just being thorough. This was my first attempt with fruit added other than JOAM and it didn't go well.) Last fall I started three one gallon batches of mead/metheglin. I racked them as needed but other only just recently got around to bottling. All three batches...

I'm finally getting to making some more mead/honey wine and had some questions. I plan to make at least two one gallon batches. One will be with strawberries and one with heather tips (or maybe just plain honey). I'll probably pitch tomorrow. 1) I remembered I'm leaving town in 11...

I'm getting impatient while my first ever batch of mead (JOAM of course) clarifies. So reading through other threads here, I decided to do a couple more small, experimental (for me) batches. I bought a couple more 1 gallon carboys and a vial of White Labs sweet mead yeast. I'm thinking...

Hey all, As will quickly be obvious, I'm a total neophyte with any kind of brewing. I decided to try a mead when I stumbled across the Joe's Ancient Orange Cinnamon Clove Mead recipe and realized it wouldn't require a lot of money for equipment. I'm very much into craft beer (plus the...