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The warm burning feel can mellow out with time, and can be handled through backsweetening as well. Carbonation is a sign of off gassing and/or ongoing fermentation, the yeast might still be active, but too slow for it to be apparent in airlock activity. I'd give it more time and definitely...

I made some recently from Knudsen's Black Cherry juice. I only had enough to fit a 1 liter mason jar but I got a 750 ml bottle and a 500 ml bottle out of it. If I find more at my grocery store, I might scale up to a gallon and repeat, especially since you don't really get much room for racking...

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Nutrients. Ever since I started using them, I've had less boozy meads and fewer sulfur smells during fermentation.

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So something's wrong with my keg and I'd rather just get my beer out before I ruin the beer trying to fix it. The issue is it won't pour and I have no idea why. I've decided to bottle my brew instead, but I'm not sure how to get it into bottles. Is it safe to use fizz drops if the beer is...

So I had an issue with kegging. My out line was not as firmly attached as I thought so shortly after turning the PSI on, it started spraying mead. Before I got it turned off, the walls were coated in a blue raspberry jackson pollack. Any suggestions on how to clean it? I tried water and...

So my last venture in mandarin mead ended up with just an acidic jar of fermented honey. No orange flavor whatsoever. I've decided I'm going to reattempt the whole thing. First, a hydromel traditional as a primary, with plenty of orange zest. Something like 1.050-1.040 O.G. for a 5% final...

Rose Mead. Really glad how this came out because I made the recipe up and the whole thing was pretty adhoc. Rose petals, rose hips and hibiscus on wildflower honey. 12% ABV. Only thing I have to say now is maybe I should have clarified it but w/e. And yes, in the background is my shelf with...

1.5 gallon porter 418.5

When my dishwasher stops, my porter brew begins. Gonna be an interesting adventure in brew in a bag, my second one, if my braggot counts.

I'm in CT and I think I saw some in Whole Foods in West Hartford.

If I can find mandarin oranges anywhere. They're easy to find canned, but finding them as whole fruits is harder. I'll keep a look out when i go grocery shopping this weekend.

I really just mean not being limited to kits. I still want to keep things simple. I guess I just want to move on to BIAB or extract or all grain, etc.

Northern Brewer's caribou slobber (hopefully the last kit I buy and I can graduate to more complicated recipes) And a braggot. I counted the braggot in the mead forum, but since it's also a beer . . . 1 gallon + 5 gallons = 6 gallons = 402.5 gallons.

So I did it wrong then. Can it be salvaged?

I made a mandarin mead earlier this month. Orange Blossom Honey (2lbs) and 30z of manderin orange slices. Also added tannin and pectic enzyme. 1 gallon batch. It started at 1.090 and today I measured and tasted it and found it at 0.994 (13% ABV) with almost no flavor. Should I just go ahead...

2 1/2 gallon mason jars (with lids modified for grommets and airlocks), two traditionals, bread yeast and 71B (I wanted to see if there'd be a difference in flavor or performance), made exactly the same way (other than yeast). So that brings us to 34.5

My brewing closet smells very fruity right now. So long as it's not that sulfur smell . . . or worse . . . I'm happy.