Recent content by Ymir

It's been a while since I logged in, but as noted in my last post, I poured all the bottles back into the carboy. Then I got hold of some kieselsol and chitosan, and stopped the fermentation. Re-bottled it. It's quite delicious! So essentially a success, although I'm still uncertain of the...

Well, I think I goofed up. The hydrometer reading seemed to stabilize and I bottled everything. But, now the mead is bubbling in the bottles, and, well, long story short, I've got corks bouncing off the ceiling. I guess I better put it all back in the carboy.

Got three brews on the go at once: this mead, a red wine, and a crabapple cider. They're at 1.020, 1.010 and 1.002 respectively.

The specific gravity is at the 20 mark, so 1.020 I guess? Is going from 1.040 to 1.020 an improvement? The brew is still bubbling steadily.

I gotta say, I'm used to VBulletin forums and I don't much care for the "quote" function on this forum. It never seems to show the person's quote when I hit the "Quote" button.

That sounds pretty darn good for a test brew. I intend to be much better prepared for the next batch!

Well, with four litres of honey, and apparently a litre of honey weighs about 3.16 pounds, so I guess that's 12.64 pounds of honey, with the rest of the bucket filled to the five gallon mark.

Here's a few pics, including another side I just spotted, which has a "5%" near the "10".

Erm, so I dropped the hydrometer in and it floated at the "10" mark. Well it says "10" on the one side, there's a "40" pretty close on the other side.

Yeah, this is a test brew. I'll aim for my precision alcohol level in a later brew, when I'm a bit more sure of what I'm doing.

Now, I moved the brew from bucket to carboy, with zero airspace between the brew and the bung; there's still a constant flow of bubbles streaming up - kind of beautiful to watch. Is there a point at which it will stop bubbling; would that be indicative of yeast exhaustion? Would the brew be...

The heck of it is, I don't even remember which it was. But I'm guessing I put in the four litres of honey, and then filled the bucket with water to the 5 gallon line. So, 1.083 is more likely to be accurate. Thank you!

Four litres of raw honey in about five gallons of water (sorry about mixing metric and standard measures, everything is marked differently around here). I sprinkled in some grapefruit zest a few days after starting the brew.

So, for my first batch, I'm not going to try fine-tuning the alcohol level; I'm just going to try to produce something drinkable. I believe I first started this batch a couple of days after making my first post. I did not get hold of a hydrometer until just recently. I've already transferred...

Well if I recall, Winkler is a "dry" town where you won't find so much as a shotglass in a thrift store! But if you make it to the big city (Winnipeg), there's the Brazen Hall brewery, and I'm fond of their craft beers.