patrick767
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Hey all,
As will quickly be obvious, I'm a total neophyte with any kind of brewing. I decided to try a mead when I stumbled across the Joe's Ancient Orange Cinnamon Clove Mead recipe and realized it wouldn't require a lot of money for equipment. I'm very much into craft beer (plus the occasional mead) and it's pretty much inevitable that I'll get into brewing more in the future, but this is an easy, inexpensive start.
Now I have most of the ingredients and equipment, but I have a couple really basic questions.
On dissolving the honey in warm water, should I just use about equal parts water and honey? I don't even have to heat it up? And from there I'm supposed to put it in the 1 gallon carboy. Should I go buy a funnel to get it in there without making a mess?
The brewing store manager looked at me like I was nuts when I said the recipe says DON'T rack the mead. But it does say to put a small cloth filter over the end of your tube when you siphon out the mead. Small cloth filter? What do I use for that?
Finally, for my carboy, bottles, and other equipment, should I pick up any particular disinfectant or not worry about it for this little project and just wash everything out with a little soap?
As will quickly be obvious, I'm a total neophyte with any kind of brewing. I decided to try a mead when I stumbled across the Joe's Ancient Orange Cinnamon Clove Mead recipe and realized it wouldn't require a lot of money for equipment. I'm very much into craft beer (plus the occasional mead) and it's pretty much inevitable that I'll get into brewing more in the future, but this is an easy, inexpensive start.
Now I have most of the ingredients and equipment, but I have a couple really basic questions.
On dissolving the honey in warm water, should I just use about equal parts water and honey? I don't even have to heat it up? And from there I'm supposed to put it in the 1 gallon carboy. Should I go buy a funnel to get it in there without making a mess?
The brewing store manager looked at me like I was nuts when I said the recipe says DON'T rack the mead. But it does say to put a small cloth filter over the end of your tube when you siphon out the mead. Small cloth filter? What do I use for that?
Finally, for my carboy, bottles, and other equipment, should I pick up any particular disinfectant or not worry about it for this little project and just wash everything out with a little soap?