Recent content by Meadpyro

Got an ale horn from my wife for Christmas. Tonight I'll be drinking mead like a viking! Merry Christmas everyone!

I had an idea to add CO2 in the headspace by placing a small chunk of dry ice and placing the airlock. What you think?

Forgot to post pictures

So I just got done racking my traditional mead. It's a 1gal traditional mead made with 3lbs wildflower honey and D-47 yeast. OG was 1.110. Used GoFerm, degassed twice a day for 4 or 5 days and used Fermaid O at 1.080. After 16 days from start I racked, took a gravity reading, and sampled. SG was...

If you've never tasted mead it's a bit like wine. You either need to backsweeten or use a lower ABV yeast to make a sweet mead. With the lower ABV% it's smoother but with age it should be better. The best mead I've tasted was Chaucer's mead. Found it in Total Wine. Sweet and comes with a herb...

Ok, just bottled my first mead. I made a hydromel with a 2 gallon bucket and 3 pounds of honey and filled with water a few inches below the top to increase the sugar/water ratio and, thus, the ABV%. OG: 1.062. Used EC-1118 yeast, degassed once, and used 1 ounce raisins for natural nutrient. I...