Recent content by Antonio Marotta

All my racked mead ends up with a lot of Lees on the bottom of the bottles. I racked from 5g carboys to 1g bottles or even wine bottles. What do I do to get rid of the Lees without wasting so much mead??

BTW, I am in Upstate NY. I started a bee hive just for fun and ended up with a lot of honey and nothing to do with it... so I made mead. 100 pounds of honey this year.

I don’t know anything about the sugars (1/3 depletion, etc). I measured the original SG at 15%. Today the Lalvin is at 70 SG and the ale yeast is at 50. So is it too late for nutrient? Should I not use DAP at all?

Thanks. Is it too late to add yeast nutrient? I have some already. I think it's disodium phosphate? I bought a stirrer online and it will be arriving tomorrow. The honey came from my honey bees. They pull from my mothers garden. The honey was nice and dark. What's a 25 gallon brute? I have 2 13...

I don’t know the temps. I’m new to all this. This is only my second batch. Procedure: put 5 pounds of honey in carbon/pail, fill with warm water. Mix it up (I could of done this better possibly). Add yeast. I put the yeast in very warm water for 15 mins to activate. I only added nutrient to...

HELP! So I made 25 gallons of mead 4 days ago. 3 in 5 gallon good grade buckets and 2 in 5 gallon carboys. All with Lalvin D47 except one was an ale yeast. So my problem and question... 4 days later I am still seeing a 2 inch layer of honey on the bottom (I thought I mixed it well initially)...