Recent content by JohanTheMighty

Thanks. I only intended to reuse once, and that is all. I've tasted the new mead that I am mixing with the 🔥 mead, and it's good. I thiefed some of each and mixed and it looks like I am going to end up with something much more palatable, quite good actually. The heat is such that you know it's...

Great suggestion, y'all! Washing yeast is cake. Much appreciated!

Thanks for the responses. I am definitely not buying more yeast. I get where you're going about yeast not costing much and such, but it's only cheap if you buy several packs at once and the 🔥 batch was supposed to be my last for this year. The batch I am making to dilute the effect of the...

Good evening. I recently made a two gallon batch of a mixed berry mead with an habanero to add a bit of a kick. After 1 week in primary, the bit of a kick is more like a stomp to the face, lol. I know better than to bottle and hope it mellows, it will probably get hotter. So, I intend to make...

Okay, so seems like I should just go ahead and remove the fruit and any impact should be minimal. That makes me feel better. These are my first meads/melomels, as well as my first go with fruit, so just a little paranoid is all, lol. Much thanks.

Good afternoon/evening. I recently started two melomel batches, using over 10 pounds of fruit in one, and a couple of pounds in the other, much smaller batch. I have a family emergency that just arose, and this weekend will have to leave to manage the issue. Up until this weekend when I leave, I...

Thank y'all very much, I appreciate it, I really do. I'm going to ahead and brew as planned then. Lesson learned, looking for better sources for future brews.

Good evening. I am planning to make a mixed berry melomel this weekend. This will be my very first mead. What I did was simply decided I wanted to make a mead, looked up a recipe, and bought the ingredients. I don't know much about honey, but the recipe calls for wildflower honey, so that is...

And here I am, 4 years later, thanking you for posting your results as I plan to brew this myself!

Please do.

Thank you both for the input. I figured that there were variables to consider that were not being discussed, including what beer to follow the previously finished one, and pitch rates. Thanks for helping to clear that up for me.

Good afternoon, I ended up here after doing a google search about reusing yeast. As you can well imagine, one of the search results led me to a thread from this specific forum and in that thread everyone was saying that if the timing is right you can just dump fresh wort right onto the old yeast...

No need to apologize, you make perfect sense. I never considered a bucket to brew because I've always used these glass carboys. The extra headspace is perfect, and won't run me $40 or more, as I feared. My appreciation for the link was sincere, and you helped me a lot. Have a great weekend, sir!

I considered that, but I was also advised that the higher temps resulted on more off-flavors, so cooling the wort seemed to make more sense. That having been said, I appreciate that link to the 8 gallon bucket. I'm probably going to end up getting it anyway for larger batches.

Hi guys. I'm about to brew a stout using the US-04 yeast. While I really like this yeast, even when fermenting in a swamp cooler with the water kept at 64 degrees, the fermentation is vigorous. I run blowoff tubes to gallon jugs, half full of water and with iodine, and I still end up with...