Recent content by dillsandwitch

This is mainly to do with my making of spitits but is a valid query for mead too. Our local water sully has fluoride in it. will this be bad for the end result for both making and watering down my spirits after i have distilled it? and is it also bad for the mead? should i be buying...

i did taste it. could taste the honey but other than that it tasted like a sour fruit juice. dunno if its meant to taste like that at all or not

okay so it time to rack to a new bottle then. thanks :D

okay so i got the hydrometer thing and the reading was 1.005 if i was reading it right.

My other half said it was stuck. im not sure how he came to this conclusion. I dont have any gravity reading im sorry. i actually dont know what that is or how to do that. Is that the measurement you take with a hydrometer thingy? umm quanties and stuff. 1.4kg of honey with 4 litres of...

Howdy All, This is my first attempt at making mead. 2 weeks ago i made 2 batches. Both in 5 litre glass bottles. Both had 1.4kg of honey and one had oranges and raisins and the other had preservative free canned cherries. the orange one is still happily bubbling away and going fine but the...