Recent content by Scyntherei

I probably should have went with that in the first place, but having been out of the loop for a bit I wasn't aware there was a better option available. Aside from this mishap, I'm not unhappy with it though. To me it sure beats sanitizing extra equipment and spending time racking.

Thanks for the tip! I did manage to break it free after wrenching on it some more. But man, let this be a warning to anyone else with this thing. Make sure it's assembled correctly!

So I decided to try the shiny (new-ish) Catalyst fermentation system. I now as of yesterday have a 1 year old daughter so over the past year finding time to spend most of a day just brewing beer was difficult. Solution: Better, more time efficient equipment. (Conical fermenter, propane burner...

My white grape + raspberry wine just finished with a gravity of 0.900 from 1.110 using lalvin 71b yeast in just 5 weeks. Like pumpkinman said, take a gravity reading each day for 2-3 days and if it hasn't changed, it's probably just releasing co2 and probably ready for bulk aging or bottling.

There's also Malkore's version that might have some of the changes you're looking for. You might try both to compare. Follow JAOM's recipe to a T and Malkore's. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/malkores-not-so-ancient-orange-mead-50201/

Alright so I made a 6.5 gallon batch of this. 12 11.5oz cans of concentrate 7lbs sugar (all I had at the time...) 6.5tsp yeast nutrient 2 1/3 tsp wine tannin Lalvin 71b-1122 yeast og ~1.090 It went through a 7 day primary with a (too) healthy primary fermentation. (too healthy as in.. it made a...