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I just want to add that I've had a similar experience. I haven't done a ton of mead at this point, but twice I've made a raspberry melomel (well, one had blackberries, too) and both times it was crystal clear within about a month after pitching. The berries were added either in secondary or...

So anyway, as a followup question to this... When fermentation goes this quickly, it kind of messes up the nutrient schedule. If you're planning nutrient additions at 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, and 7 days (or 1/3 break), the fermentation could be effectively done before the final nutrient...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm certainly not trying to rush it. I almost felt like the mead was trying to rush me more than the other way around. I was expecting to not rack for another week or two. I based my decision to rack on some reading I've done where people have said to rack onto the...

Hi, I'm fairly new to making mead - I started the easy way of just dumping everything, including the nutrients, together at the beginning and just letting it do its thing. Recently I decided to give staggered nutrient addition a try on a small batch. I used the batch builder at meadmakr.com...

Sungreen20, I know it was a while since you posted about the cyser with benzoate, but I'm curious about your results... When you say "ferment to 1.025", do you mean that 1.025 was your final gravity and it didn't go lower than that? I'm also wondering if the "local" brand you're referring...