Recent content by kristofaaah

what a cool idea. I'll have to try this out.

is degassing multiple times a day something you do often?

Ok, forgive my wishy washy recipie, I'm really, really new at this. I say 1/2 gallon of water becasue of this. I brew in 1gal carboy's, as its what I have for now. So, the 3.5lbs of honey filled the carboy a little less that half. I realise it's an oxymoron, but if I'm trying to guess specific...

OG was 1.107.

Just degassed, it smells wonderful. Fingers crossed, trying not to freak out :)

Ugh, sorry. I’ve been horrible at explaining myself of these forums. My recipe was -3.5 lbs honey - 1 sachet lalvin 71b - ~1/2 gallon of tea - nutrients and fermaid It is about 18 hours old at the moment

Hey everyone. In this batch of mead, I used tea in place of water for my must. I’m afraid I didn’t cool the tea down enough before adding to my carboy. I’m thinking it was somewhere around 95f to even possibly 100f. Silly mistake, I know... In the picture below I’m hoping you can see this...

honetsly, I just got paid, so I'm gonna see if someone wants this for a fix-it projects and cough up the 15 bucks. Booooo.

So, I recently bought an autosiphon and about 30 minutes ago I racked a mead from a 1gal carboy into another 1 gal carboy. Worked like a dream. After letting the sediment settle, I wanted to rack it again, and I found a peice missing, or rather removed from the autosiphon. I tried to use it...