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Does anyone use any type of straining material when they rack? I'm looking for something with a tight enough weave to strain out the lees. After someone else mentioned it I was thinking I might be able to make a bucket equivalent of a french press to help with cutting down on loss when racking.

You might want to peel & chop up 4 or 5 oranges and add them to the secondary. Just make sure you are getting as little of the pith as possible.

If it's bubbling then it's fermenting. I would recommend getting a hydrometer so you know when it has stopped fermenting.

Any updates on how this is coming along? I was thinking of giving it a try tomorrow.

You might want to give it a stir to degas the mead and take the opportunity to clean the air lock at the same time. My 2 & 4 year old think I'm a magician when I run a stirrer around a fermenting bucket and it suddenly foams up like it's a mug of root beer.

Also make sure you are pulling out a sample and sniffing it from a glass. I've had that smell when sniffing from a 1 gallon carboy because of the stopper but the mead itself smells fine in the glass.

Working on clarifying a couple of 1 gallon mead batches and just had a thought. Since bentonite works by having a negative change to attract the particles in suspension has anyone ever tried setting up awoke strong magnets to see if that works to clarify a mead? I was thinking of a few hard...

Please let us know how it works in the crock pot. I'm thinking about doing a bochet as my next test batch and I'm curious how the low/slow approach works against higher/faster.

I wish I had seen yours before I started my 2 batches. Lessons learned from first batches of JOAM - Cut the fruit into smaller pieces. Fishing large slices of orange out of the bottle was a pain.

I thought of that but for some reason she doesn't want me storing large amounts of alcohol in easily accessed container in the closet of our toddler's bedroom. I can't imagine why...

Not sure who else lives in the mid west but there were a TON of tornadoes touching down here. With all that going down I STILL couldn't convince my wife that my mead constituted emergency supplies.

I would recommend just chopping the strawberries into halves or quarters. You don't want to crush too many of the seeds as that might give you some off flavors and it will be a lot less likely to haze the finished mead.

Thanks RoadKill. I've been digging around trying to find info on how much head space is too much. I have a couple of batches of JAOM that should be ready in a week or two but since everything is in 1 gallon sizes I was trying to figure out how to handle the extra space after removing the lees...

I'm guessing 'Splash Racking' means letting it splash and aerate when moving from one rack to another in order to degass the mead and let out the hydrogen sulfide gas that is making it smell so bad.

There's something I haven't thought about. What are vegetarian / vegan's opinions on honey since it's an animal product?

It may be possible that your honey is settling out is it wasn't combined completely with the water. I had that problem with my first batch of JAOM.

So you wouldn't recommend trying to put a filter or something on the source side of the siphon?

Latest batch of mead started last night using Welches Black Cherry & Wild Grape juice. Based on the Joe's Quick Grape recipe.

I think you may have posted in the wrong area. I haven't seen any mead making kits.

SummerSolstice has his pumpkin pie recipes posted in the Recipes section. I'm going to start a 2 gallon batch this weekend and hope that it's done by thanksgivings. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/sweet-potato-pie-mead-75582/ The difference is I'm going to use Lavin EC-1118 in hopes of a...