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Hello! I'm wanting to experiment and try making a fun summer beer. I've done as much research as I can but I seem to be coming up with nil. I've read about Kool-Aid being used as a flavoring agent and/or utilized during secondary/bottling but I haven't seen anything in regards to boiling the...

Thank you everyone for your responses. I've decided to let it continue to age and just bottle it when clear. I appreciate all the help.

Hello all! I’ve made my first batch of mead and it is currently sitting and aging in a glass carboy. I had to use glass marbles to displace the mead to reduce the headspace. So here’s my question. I can see sediment on the bottom of the carboy sitting on the marbles. We want the mead to be...

Hello all, just racked a mead that was fermenting for a month onto some previously frozen cherries. The picture below shows the head space left over after racking from a 5-gallon bucket to this 6.5-gallon carboy. Should I be worried about the head space? I’ll be racking off the cherries in 2...

Okay, so since the recipe calls for six months, what might be the suggestion for me to do? Getting the ingredients were quite costly and I don’t want to mess this up. My plan was to fill a nylon strainer bag with glass marbles to keep the cherries submerged rather than letting them end up...

So I’m following a recipe from the book shown. It says to rack off primary onto the cherries for 6 months? Then rack off the cherries and age, bottle when clear. I was not going to stabilize, no.

Hello! This is my first batch of mead and I'm almost at the one month mark of primary. I'm about to rack into my secondary where the mead will sit on tart cherries for six months. My question is whether to rack into a 5 or 6.5 gallon carboy. The amount of cherries the recipe calls for is 5...

Hello all! I'm currently brewing my first batch of mead. I utilized the SNA and degassing. My schedule is as follows: Day 0: Rehydrated with Go-Ferm. Day 1: After seeing the airlock bubbling, I degassed and added Fermaid-K and DAP. Day 2: Degassed. Lots of airlock bubbling. Day 3: Degassed and...

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Hello all! I'm currently brewing my first batch of mead. I utilized the SNA and degassing. My schedule is as follows: Day 0: Rehydrated with Go-Ferm. Day 1: After seeing the airlock bubbling, I degassed and added Fermaid-K and DAP. Day 2: Degassed. Lots of airlock bubbling. Day 3: Degassed and...

Thank you all for your responses. We have lots of bubbling in the airlock and I added the first round of the SNA additions yesterday when I noticed a small amount of bubbling. Now the closet has the pleasant scent of fermentation!

Hello! So this is my first time brewing a batch of mead. I’m making a recipe I got from The Compleat Meadmaker. It required Riesling Concentrate and will secondary on sour cherries. So in my haste I rehydrated my yeast (D47) but instead of rehydrating it with Go-Ferm, I added the Go-Ferm...

Hello! I'm Ben and about to make my first batch of Mead. I'm following Schramm's recipe from his book "The Compleat Meadmaker" and doing the Oblascinka Cherry Riesling Pyment. I know I can't get those cherries but my wallet is trying to find a way to get tart cherries at an affordable price...