Recent content by Taelend

Thanks I appreciate all the info and tips :) this weekend I'll get out to the brew supply shop and get a couple rubber bungs and another Carboy for replacements (not easy for me to go out that way during the week)

Thanks a lot! I appreciate it. So that white stuff on the bottom looks okay? Just yeast? I honestly don't know since it's my first mead. I've brewed beer and cider so I assumed yeast. Just looks different than what I've seen

The cap is plastic rather than a rubber bung. I had to take it off at one point and clean it due to the mead bubbling up into the airlock and it was fine then. Just realizing it's cracked now. Near the hole were you put the airlock. Not a huge hole but it's a hole nonetheless

Okay so first mead. Going for a sweeter dessert mead. Only 1 gallon sized just to get used to it. 4lbs raw honey, and about 3/4 gallon water used. Also used a yeast nutrient and energizer, and dosed with campden 24 hours prior abd then shook very violently for 5 mins or so before pitching yeast...

Okay so just uncapped my first bottle of my first ever brew of anything. Cider. Fermented about a month and a half and then about 2 weeks in bottles. Smells well like hard cider I've had should smell. I've only had bottled hard cider from store like angry orchard and such. This has a slight...

thanks for the tips guys. Literally first time brewing anything. The kit I got as a gift literally had the simplest directions. You guys are a huge help

Haha for some reason the pic turned sideways when I uploaded it. Thanks! I was planning to wait through the 3rd week before I bottle. Is that right?

Okay been a little more than 2 weeks. Used an unfiltered but pasteurized Apple juice from the store that contained no preservatives. White wine yeast used. Does this look okay? I'm hoping the stuff on the sides near the top is just from the bubbling.