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three years for a roughly 6% abv session mead? I figured like beer it was a function of SG

Thanks. I ended up doing just that. What I did to purge was fill it, close it, charge it up and then pull the pin a few times, assuming the CO2 displaces O2 from the bottom up. I'm not sure you want a bottle off this first batch though! Thanks

Hello friends This is my session mead started on June 27th with an SG of 1.048 and current gravity of 1.002 I racked it to the secondary at exactly two weeks at a gravity of roughly 1.010 As a beginner, I'm learning i could have invoked a more vigorous fermentation with better starter methods...

Hello friends I just came back after a long hiatus from brewing. I last bottled a wine in 2010. We're on our fourth year of beekeeping and I had a batch of honey that got irreversibly crystallized and that I couldn't sell as raw honey any longer and thus my journey into mead making began! I...

Hello friends Just getting back into brewing after a 13-year hiatus and am new to the meadmaking world. I just started my second mead. Rather than pitch fresh yeast, I did this by using two-week old must & lees from my first mead - a low gravity session mead - added to a fresh batch of honey...