Recent content by Valguss

Thanks again for the responses! I will take a look for Star San sanitizer and try to be more diligent about cleaning. Yeah, I probably wasn't even using soap & water first, and also hadn't thought about my "clean" tap water as possibly re-introducing contaminants. In regards to the yeast, I...

Thank you for the responses! To answer some of the questions... No, I have not tried measuring the gravity on my batches. Fermentation has always seemed decent. It's usually fairly vigorous for the first week or so, then slows but continues for another month or two. I always rack to...

I started making mead just over 3 years ago. My first three batches were "regular" mead or "honey maple mead", and all were ok to good. Since then, I have made close to a dozen batches, and they ALL seem to share a similar bad taste. I've made several "regular" batches of mead, as well as...