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It's that time of the year. Cyser time. All of the ingredients present for a picture. Pour about 3/4 gallons of local raw honey. Then mix time. Start with 3 gallons of cider for easier mixing while keeping splashing to a minimum. Add 3ish tsp of DAP while mixing. Than add the...

5 gallons of traditional at 1.010. Thinking of adding 2.5KG blueberries and 1kg of cranberries into secondery..... My spidy-senses telling me it's going to be awful. Anyone tried this mix?

On my 40th batch and this substance appears to float on the top. Fermentation is complete (1120 to 1030) To me, it appears that Fermaid-O wasn't used up all the way. That also could mean my scheduling / recipe requires a bit too much Fermaid-O.... Any thoughts. NOTE - color is more...

Greetings all, Looking to increase general knowledge about modern mead making, Are there any good books that are recent. I have The Complete Meadmaker by Ken Schramm. I'm looking into Let there be Melomels - is it worth it? Thanks.!

Two batches of same honey but different OG. Batch 33 (OG 1.110 / 5.5 gallons volume) and 34 (OG 1.120 / 5.5 gallons volume). Start 31 Oct 2022. Starter - 10.5 grams of Go-Ferm with 4 x D47 packets. Each batch got half. Fermaid O added to each batch @ day 1 (5 grams), day 2 (5 grams) and...

I want to make a bobbly drink. I want to bottle it right before dry knowing that fermentation will continue. The question - how much can a bottle take before going boom? If I bottle at 1.004, expecting it go to 1.000 -- can a bottle top cork take it? Is there a calculator of how much it...

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Posting my experience-technique for blueberry melomel Start 28 July 2022 Raw honey to OG 1.110 3 gallons of "spring water" 2 x D47 29 July - 4.5 grams of fermaid-O 30 July - 4.5 grams of fermaid-O 31 July - 5.0 grams of fermaid-O 20 Aug - moved to secondary 21 Aug - added 8 LB of...

Are there any guides or personal experience with oaking melomel mead? Also I'm trying to see difference between french and american oak. The reason I'm asking - I have blackberry and blueberry melomels, one is dry and another approaching dry. I want to raise taste from dry without adding...

I've search how other counties make mead and discovered a youtube video of some Slavic mead. Below is my recreation. Note - I skipped boiling honey since I think that step is not required since my raw honey doesn't contain bee "bits" or wax. they think boiling helps to breakup sugar and helps...

Has anyone tried this method? Stick a thermometer into a glass in your freezer and record freezing point. Then using calculator you get ABV.... https://shotgundentist.com/blog/usefull-tools/alcohol-percentage-to-freezing-point-calculator/ Am I missing anything?

Curious, Are there any articles or test that tried batch with nutrition and nothing added to mead? Anyone have experience of doing such compere?

My brew shop said WLP570 is the same as 1388, so I bought it for BOMM. But after digging this forum, general opinion that it isn't. So now I have a packet of WLP570 and looking for a recipe. My google-fu produced no results. I would like a recipe and feedback of the end product. Anyone care...

Please allow me to share my first experience of making a pyment. Local farmers market was selling white seedless grapes for 1 bag for $1. So I got 20 bags. It took over a hour to remove stems and remove each grape. Outcome was 50Lb of grapes. One full bucket! Then I decided to get...

See attached image. The goo - do you remove it or just steer it up and let it go?

Problem - once you open the bottle even if it's chilled, dead yeast circulates and makes entire drink gets muddy. is there a home-made solution to attempt to remove yeast while not loosing liquid or carbonation inside? A year ago I've made 1 gallon clover honey + EC1118. Only one bottle...