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  1. J

    wanna try some brown sugar in my mead, good or bad idea?

    no i havent but im gonna give it a shot, i got apple jolly ranchers and a bunch of butterscotch candies i'm gonna throw in my next batch i make ill let you know how the turn out
  2. J

    wanna try some brown sugar in my mead, good or bad idea?

    hey all, i'm gonna try to make a caramel apple mead with 10lbs of honey and maybe a lb or two of brown sugar. was gonna drop two bags of melted butter scotch candies and apple jolly ranchers in the secondary. thinking the brown sugar will give it a good caramel taste, gonna be a 5gal batch...
  3. J

    my watermelon mead

    i was looking at other pics of mead fermenting and it looks the same as some. not much foam. im thinging im gonna let it ride. gonna strain into the secondary with some pantihose get all the grit out. gonna melt alot of watermelon jolly ranchers and drop them in there too. hopefully its gonna be...
  4. J

    my watermelon mead

    made a 5gal batch of watermelon mead, i was concerned cause ive seen on here that its a flop.. its doing its thing but theres some dark foam in there. its bubbling once every 2 seconds. i kinda wanna rack it into another 5gal bottle. would the exposure mess it up? i used chunks of watermelon...
  5. J

    Watermelon mead

    yea i just cut them up and threw them in there. it was a sugar baby so its about half the size of a normal watermelon or smaller.. its smells kinda funky but thats normal i think. its a 5gal batch i used ec-1118 yeast and starter, its getting its bubble on, only took about 12 hours to start...
  6. J

    mead question

    hello i just made a batch of watermelon mead and i was reading on here that it was a mistake. i used one whole sugar baby watermelon, didnt juice it just threw the chunks in there. its not foaming that much at all and id hate to make a bad batch but i dont wanna drain it and expose my brew...
  7. J

    Watermelon mead

    i made a watermellon mead about 3 days ago and i put one whole watermellon in it, didnt juice it. i knew i should have made an apple spice mead but i did that insted.. should i crack the jug an siphon it into another? is the batch gonna be bad? damn what a waste. any advice would be helpful...
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