Recent content by aurelius

I know, that scares the ****e out of me - not just for the possible heavy metals or antibiotics, but also for the fact it may not even be honey. and what could potentially being sold labelled made in the usa but really from external sources. about 10 years ago I used to buy "honey" in these...

ounces by volume - looking again at the gotmead calculator, I notice now that they have an entry for ounces and one for fl ounces - in which case it predicts the gravity at 1.103. EDIT - no, nevermind, scratch that - just pulled the bottles out of recycling and they say "net wt"/EDIT

I need to check farmers' markets for something local to me, otherwise the best I have been able do so far is this raw+unfiltered one from amazon: http://camelcamelcamel.com/Ambrosia-Colorados-Western-16-Ounce-Bottles/product/B001EO616S if you do the subscribe+save discount (ships by usps not...

1.076 is what I got from the calculator too. obviously did a very bad job mixing when I took the readings! the jug could still be topped off by quite a lot (~3qt) so I ordered some more honey and hopefully get that done in a couple days from now - considering whether to keep about the same...

wow, thanks for all the great replies! apologies for lack of precise language. by "1/2t+" yeast, I meant a little more than 1/2 teaspoon - in this case about 1/2 the packet, or ~2.5g. I just now pitched the rest of the packet to be safe. I could well have gotten the gravity wrong - definitely...

(also also, mention of tannins amuses me mainly because lately I have to consider resurfacing iron-tannate aka rust-converters for my car (seen here: http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2006/09/01/hmn_feature4.html ) - ok, not my photos or words, but it is now my car, so now who's laughing...

cheers, thanks pitched yeast and partial nutrient (considering doing every-other-day thing?) and it looks good so far, yay me. I do wonder about pilot error (as always ha) but checked gravity a couple times and it seemed to be well mixed and hydrometer not sticking, house temp. here pretty...

new to the place, and to brewing honestly - have spent hours reading great info from everyone, but still learning. I just put together a sour cherry melomel; EC-1118 and nutrient to go in soon. the gravity measured out at 1130, which is a little high compared to my experiments up until now...