Recent content by milleruszk

No kit came with 1oz of priming sugar. I will reduce the amount of sugar once I determine my exact volume. Thanks for your help.

I made my first brew batch this past Saturday using a Brewers Best one gallon kit. After I transfered the wort into the primary fermenter and pitched the yeast I now have only about 2/3 of a gallon? I followed the instructions and started out with 1.5 gallons of water. Maybe I boiled off too...

bernardsmith Thanks for the reply.......As an anxious newcomer I probably did bottle too soon.

CKuhns, Thanks for your suggestions. I am new at making mead and you have saved me from myself. I would have worried about these bottles and probably would have made more work for myself.

I bottled this mead about 3 months ago and now it has cleared nicely. But I have about 1/8" of lees on the bottom of the bottles. What should I do? Should I re-bottle? Should I leave it alone? Will the lees effect the taste? I guess I was over eager to bottle and should have left it in...

After 30 days I siphoned my mead into a secondary carboy. I think I had better get an auto siphon as I got some mead on the kitchen floor. Got it cleaned up before the wife saw it. I have a racking cane but I couldn't get it to siphon by using mouth suction. Anyway it tasted sweet and...

Maybe I read the hydrometer wrong? Anyway I hope you are right as your calculation is exactly what I was aiming for.

No problem, I popped the lid and it is fermenting. Bubbling up nicely. Hydrometer reading was 1.120. Anyway all is well.

I made up a one gallon batch of cyser in a 2 gallon bucket. I added 1 gallon of apple juice and a little over 3 lbs of honey. To this I added reconstituted D47 yeast and yeast nutrient. I have a cover and air lock on the bucket. After 24 hours I do not see any activity in the air lock. This...

Temp fluctuates between 65-75. I do not intend to oak it but I am very interested on your technique and results.

Reww, I mixed up a batch using EC1118 and got exactly the same 1.110 OG as you did. My batch is only 2 weeks old.

SKBugs thanks for your suggestions. I have read that some beginners do become bubble watchers. However some of the things you suggested I have already done. I did check my must b4 pitching my yeast. My hydrometer reading was 1.110. This could be a little off because at the that time I did...

SKBugs thanks for your suggestions. I have read that some beginners do become bubble watchers. However some of the things you suggested I have already done. I did check my must b4 pitching my yeast. My hydrometer reading was 1.110. This could be a little off because at the that time I did...

I started my first batch of mead on 9/28/19. I used 3.5 lbs of honey for a 1 gallon batch using EC1118 yeast. Since this is my first attempt at making mead this will be traditional mead. I am using a 1 gallon glass carboy. So far so good. After one day of fermentation there were 19...