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    Oil slick on top of mead

    I was basing my recipe off of a suggestion from my local brewer supply company, which called for about 10 pounds of honey and 5 pounds of blueberries (getting the rest of the sugar from the berries) in order to make an ABV of 15%-ish. Problem was that when I took the measurement, it was coming...
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    Oil slick on top of mead

    Okay, good. It doesn't smell, it's just odd-looking. Then again, I don't have the greatest sense of smell, but my roomies aren't saying it smells particularly off. The recipe was 14 lbs honey, 2.4 kilos of the puree, and water. I had to really mess with it a bit because the initial amount of...
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    Oil slick on top of mead

    I wanted to try an experiment with making an Acai mead. Sanitized just like normal, looked at the ingredients that I was able to get; the Sambazon brand Acai puree (unsweetened), with nothing in there except for < .5% vitamin c and soy lecithin. I've never seen an oil slick like this before...
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