Recent content by MiachMcD77

Thanks for the tip! I'm assuming it doesn't take much water and therefor has a nearly (if not entirely) negligible change in potential ABV, correct?

Yeah I aerate a couple times a day to release CO2 and especially before dropping in nutrients. Otherwise its a guaranteed geyser.

I have added nutrients at the 1/3rd and 2/3rd sugar breaks. What is energizer? If it was part of the recipe I likely added it. But otherwise I don''t know what qualifies.

I use an aerator to mix the honey in, which happened after the tea had steeped and cooled just before pitching the yeast. But your comment about boiling got me thinking, this was the only batch of the 3 where we boiled the water to steep the tea in. The other 2 batches were steeped in water...

Hi everyone! Very amateur mead maker here. So, in advance, please excuse my inexperience or lack of proper vocabulary. I have been experimenting with home brewing mead off and on for the past couple of years, often meeting with moderate or better success! :) However, I recently made...