Recent content by TriangleMead

So after my last batch didn’t go so well it took me a long time but I set up a new batch yesterday. Very simple recipe. My question is, the yeast is red star Pasteur champagne yeast- does it need yeast nutrients? Recipe didn’t call for any, but I figured I’d ask.

I’m certainly not opposed to working with sour cherries to avoid the robitussin effect, but would my idea have a chance of working? Do you think it might create a cherry-apple flavor that’s sweet?

As I have said, I am an amateur mead maker, having only done so a few times. I was interested in trying to make a cherry mead until I saw how several people online had tried it and it apparently came out like robitussin. So I was considering making a cherry-cyser? Thinking two large cans of...

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10 lbs I would think it could stand to add a gallon of apple juice since I added so little honey?

What would happen with the gravity too high?

So I started a cyser day before yesterday. It’s about 4 gallons but I realized I have enough room in the bucket with the must for another gallon of apple juice. Is it too late to add another gallon? Seems to be humming along fine and I don’t want to mess it up, but I also can’t imagine why...

Ya think? I guess I can let it sit for a few months. Gonna clear out the strawberries and put it in a dark room. Maybe by April it will taste decent.

So I reracked to secondary, thawed some frozen strawberries and added them to each secondary (split it into two for secondary over space concerns). Then I waited like 6 weeks and just tried the first half. So there's an odor of alcohol about it, but it's very cloudy with pieces of strawberry...

Okay, we’ll I guess tomorrow I’ll rerack to secondary and add pectic enzyme. Thank you!

Took a reading tonight, photos attached. So, we actually only extracted juice from the strawberries and didn’t put any full ones in. Some pieces got in but I bet when we extract from primary to secondary they will mostly be settled on the bottom and avoided. When should I use pectic enzyme if...

I appreciate all the help, but I have another question if you don’t mind So for a while I added nutrients every other day and stirred to give it some oxygen. The last few every other day openings were just for stirring. But when I looked yesterday there didn’t seem to be ANY bubbles...I didn’t...

Well, over the last few days I've been adding nutrients every other day and stirring. Today when I opened it up it was bubbling happily along and some must was actually in the airlock! I did some more stirring and added more nutrients. Only a little left of the nutrients I bought but I figure...

Do you have a link to those instructions on staggering nutrients, by chance? And how long should I keep stirring daily?

SNA protocols? We are mostly good on bugs, but I do worry. We had a few fruit flies last week and I’d like to keep them out of the must. Any reason not to keep it sealed?