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Alas, I have never acquired the brewing refrigerator that I've wanted to be able to brew lagers. My wife tolerates my brewing, provided I don't do it too often and I don't do things like empty out the kitchen refrigerator to fit a five gallon fermenter in it. :o What's your preferred...

And if I wanted it fermented medium to sweet? Yes, please! Gurus, your help is needed!

If I go with 15lbs honey can I use all of the orange juice I have squeezed (almost a gallon) plus zest? Or is this too much orange for the yeast to handle? And does anyone have a specific yeast recommendation to make for this mead? Again, many thanks!

So, to do this as a 5 gallon batch your recipe would change to 5 oranges 15 lbs. honey Did you use orange sections? Orange juice? Zest?

I have come into an abundance of oranges. After three Saturdays of making orange marmalade, I'm ready to try an orange mead. Having looked at the recipes for Joe's Ancient and Malkore's Not-So-Ancient the thing I'm struck by is how few oranges are being used. (Roughly one per gallon) Is...