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I have been reading up on wines and have seen using K Meta at time of bottling for longer storage/aging process. Is this recommended at all for meads? I'm getting ready to bottle my blackberry mead in a few weeks and was wondering if I needed to do this since everywhere I have read states the...

:( Well this stinks. I was dumping my grains out of my mash cooler and the lid caught on my shoulder and ripped the lid strap out from the inside of the cooler along with a 3" narrow strip from the inside lining of the cooler. What can I use to "glue" this strip back in and seal the section...

:) I am doing my first mead (well melomel sp?) from a kit from my LHBS. It starts with 10 lbs honey and then later stated this would be dry so add sugar if wanted. So what I did was get another 5lbs of honey for a total off 15 lbs. The instructions state that after 10 days the airlock...

Did my first AG today. :ban: From start to finish it was about 5 1/2 hours but was alot of fun. Made some mistakes on calculations for strike volume/temp so i ended up with larger volume than my brew pot. Did batch sparging and my mash volume ended up larger than the sparge volume too...

Just brewing my secong kit, a British Pale Ale, and after I had started I realize that the Irish Moss is missing. What can I use in the secondary fermantation step to help clarify since I don't have a LHBS and will have to wait on an order to arrive. Not wild about opening the primary...

My brew is in the secondary now for just over 1 week. It is a honey wheat from a kit that didn't recomend any secondary, but I figured that should improve the beer even more so why not. I now have noticed little white "islands" floating on top of the brew. I have not noticed much of any...

Just moved my first batch from plastic primary to carboy. hated to leave about 1 - 1 1/2 inches left behind with the auto siphon but at least I got a good tasting. (AT least as much as I could at 9am and having to still go to work LOL) And it tasted GOOD!!! Couple of questions if I may...

Hey all. Just started my first batch this past weekend after looking at homebrewing for a couple of years. Really enjoyed it and the pointers/info given by all on this board. Thanks to all the contributors!!! :mug: