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6 Gallons last night 21668.5 + 6 = 21674.5

Well, thankfully thats only a couple more weeks. :P I was hoping to bottle some and give them out as gifts for christmas... I guess I should probably include a disclaimer for letting it sit in the bottle to age properly.

Just trying to see if my mead has 'cleared' out enough. I started the brew Oct 10th and this is what I'm staring at. I'm itching to bottle this (and try it!). Is it ready or should I wait?

I have a question... If I bottle the mead and then open one, will it eventually spoil like wine or will it be fine over the course of bottle conditioning it?

I used the original recipe, pretty close to verbatim. It's my first go, so I wasn't really sure what to tweak or change... so I figured I would let the recipe do the talking. I did add 5 cloves for a 1.6 clove/1 gallon ratio and used 9 lbs of clover honey with 1lb of orange blossom honey.

Good to hear! I thought I had seen something about not needing to triple they yeast, seems to be getting pretty good action out of the airlock already. I'll definitely keep everyone posted. Thanks!

Just pinging this. I threw all of the items in a 3 gallon carboy, trippling the volume of everything except for the yeast. Should I have tripled the yeast also?

It's generally good to have some sort of filter element on the end of your siphon anyways, but the pellets should stay in the bottom with the trub.