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I made an easter beer this year. We eastern Slavic Christians have foods and alcohol which we would not have been consuming during Lent in baskets to be blessed after the Easter services. I made a Trappist-style braggot: shooting for 9% ABV, I used 1:1 amber dme and honey, tettnanger hops for...

I now know that my EC-1118 was not mostly dead, as I had suspected. I warmed up the mead to just over room temp overnight and it's now visibly chugging away. Guess I'm just going to have dry mead. Halting it is definitely wishful thinking, though I may keep thinking about it...

Thanks, I've been considering checking pH because I haven't at all since I started. Another thing to consider: I really, really like the taste of this mead sweet and I'm out of the honey I started with, so I couldn't backsweeten with it. Is there any reason I shouldn't halt fermentation and...

Some updates: Racked to secondary on 2/19/23 and added 2 oz. oak cubes to the secondary vessel. There wasn't really much least of sediment in the bottom of the primary vessel, but after spending a few days in my basement (at 64 F), I was noticing lots of sedimentation and clarification within 5...

This is what I had thought, too, but White Labs themselves claim that it will not fully ferment out, so that's what I expect. Anyways, thanks guys. I thought the conservative option (wait and see, don't touch it!) was going to be the better one.

When I started the batch, I only had a plastic bucket fermentor (one which doesn't have a perfect seal), though now I have glass carboys. I feel uncomfortable with leaving mead to age in a plastic bucket as opposed to glass--I was under the impression that I shouldn't age in plastic. That's why...

I want to ask some advice for a batch I’ve been fermenting since January. Here was my recipe: 12 lbs blackberry blossom honey 3 lbs wildflower honey 1 pack of WLP720 Sweet Mead Yeast 5 tsp nutrient/energizer mix (2 tsp on day 1, 2 tsp after 24 hrs, 1 tsp after 48 hrs) OG 1.110 I created a 2L...

I'm working on multiple batches of mead at the moment and will make some wine over the summer, too. I prefer corked wine bottles, but I have access to a nearly unlimited supply of clear screw-top wine bottles. I'm just wondering what you folks have used for screw caps that work the best for...

Hi all, I've embarked on various homebrew projects before and thought I may hop on here to learn and gain some insights from more experienced folk. It's a hobby I've definitely been interested in taking up for the long run! Currently working on a couple batches of mead (my wife and I love...