Recent content by kylesare57

I'm new to making Mead, this is my first batch, I started these on 8/22/18 so about 3 weeks ago one has half water half apple juice and the other is 100%water, other than the yeast and honey of course, I siphoned the apple Mead out of it's original bottle to get away from the stuff that...

I just racked the apple melomel, and I must say, it tastes bad, it reminds me of a cheap wine, and not in a good way, I got most of the sediment out although there's still a bit, I also spilled a bunch on the bathroom floor when my siphone fell out of my car, at about 2.5 pints of the original 4

So about 3-4 days ago I covered the airhole while I degassed one of the bottle[emoji23], and lets just say it has the perfect amount of Mead left, I overfilled it, they're starting to smell like actual alcohol now

If I shake it it floats around and settles again

I noticed there's already some sediment on the Bottom, did I **** up? I had the yeast in eater at about 95 degrees and brought it to about 10 degrees above the must, shook it up and added Energizer and nutrient

Just made both batches one has organic apple juice,. Not sure how much I put in I kinda just mixed it with the water, I had to pour some of it out, and I think I poured some yeast out, it was too full to finish adding yeast, but it should have more than enough, I went a little overkill on...

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Woah only 3 months? I'll probably drink one of the batches before it's done racking, do I just cut the ingredients by 10 for each batch? It says to degass it, I'm using an plastic airlock do I need to do anything special to degass it? And last question it says to follow the tosna schedule will I...

I get my yeast tomorrow, I'm going to brew 1 gallon in total in 2 batches of 64oz, I'm thinking of making one without fruit and using some fruit in the second batch but I can't find a recipe for 1/2 gallon, I'm planning in just cutting the ingredients in half from a gallon recipe, will that...