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I'm made two 1 gal batches. One traditional one black berry. I started with approximately 4lb honey levin 1118 yeast. I was shooting for 18 abv ( i know my goal was high i bought the wrong yeast so i had a lot of honey because im not to a fan of dry mead. ) i did have temp issues. I put in a...

Update i found a mini fridge to ferment in i propped door open a little for air flow i dont have it on . and both are fermenting fine this morning

I wasn't planning on that. I just bought the wrong yeast didn't do enough research when I got to the store. and I tested a dry Mead didn't care for it so I wanted to Sweeter one. I followed a mead calculator to come up with the pounds of honey. It was not my first goal.

I just started my first two meads. The first one is the traditional just yeast water and honey water should be around 80 degrees give or take I used 1gal water Lavin ec-1118 for a yeast and about 4 lb of honey as I'm trying to shoot for 18% because of the yeast. My question however is I used 2...