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So its the season for it, and like many others I'm getting on the elderflower bandwagon. I'm gunna try to make 5gals, and have currently made the base solution for it. I didn't use a recipe, just general formula for elderflower cordial thats worked in the past with a few tweaks. So far...

any advice on how much honey to add to prime?

thanks beo for the advice, thats great those methods deffinately sound doable. I think I'll try a few of every method...I reckon its the best way to learn... dry and sparkling sweet and still sweet and sparkling easy method sweet and sparkling hard method I imagine some will think...

slightly revised plan... rack some off to bottles and prime with honey (advice on quantities?) now for dry and sparkling, then rack the remaining off the dead yeast into another 5 gal and add oak chips/cubes, leave to finish fermenting for a while, then into bottles with added honey for sweet...

Yeah, sorry I couldn't remember, its Young's Super Wine Yeast Compound. So as its formulated for high alcohol (anyone know the tolerance?) I believe i've shot myself in the foot in trying to make sweet fizzy mead. Was also wrong when I said no nutrients, as the compound has some in it. So as...

Forgot to mention....no nutrients/energiser/etc used

Hey, so I'm new to brewing, have done a gallon of elderflower wine previously about 2 months ago, which turned out a treat, and have currently got a 5 gal mead brew going. I started the brew (metheglin) about 6 weeks ago 22/11/09, with a starting SG of 1.070. Temperature was initially about...