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So I'm about ready to get another pail of honey and trying to figure out what my next batch will be. I think I'm going to try for a salted caramel mead? Did a search and not much came up for caramel flavoring aside from some beers that most reviews said it was obviously a fake chemical...

Hydrometer works fine on all the other batches that are going so I am certain that isn't it and the current batch is sitting right around 1.02 so it is far from done. It tastes like drinking the sweetest drink you've ever had so again, it is far from being done fermenting. As I stated I have...

Okay so I did as was suggested, started about a gallon of new mead in a primary, got it going good with some champ. yeast, a day later I added about a 1/4 gallon, still was churning nice, next day another 1/4 gallon, and the same the following day. It stopped actively fermenting on day 4 and...

Finally got some test strips today and right where I would expect. Around 4.4. Still sitting a 1.02 where it has been for 2 months, I did put a bit of hops in it but it smells horribly sweet and tastes like crap.

Still haven't made it anywhere to get ph strips. Hopefully Monday or Tuesday. Starting SG was around 1.06 or so, fermented nicely for a while then hit a wall.

Temp is about 70 degrees. Don't have any way to take the pH so will have to work on that one

I have a 6 gallon batch of mead (15lbs of clover) which I added hops to about 4 months ago. Racked and moved a couple times then before I went away for a month in early May I checked the gravity and it was 1.015. Racked and checked gravity again last week and it was stil 1.015. Added some a...

Not really expecting much, just wanted to get up close to 18% and was out of brown sugar at the house.

I'm not a fan of burnt anything (so that scares me) and I just didn't have enough brown sugar sitting around the house so I added a bit of white sugar. Smells fantastic and has slowed down fermenting in the past couple days. has about an inch of growth and banana solids on top. Will probably...

Banana Foster Mead hence the sugars and maple syrup. The cooking broke everything down nicely, don't have a potato masher. :) Looked at it this morning to give it a stir and there is a good inch of growth on top of it.

Well the funniest thing happened after 5 days of very infrequent bubbling and no change in gravity, something happened and it started going crazy in the airlock. Once every 3 or 4 seconds for a couple days before slowing. Today I measured 1.01 and moved it into a cartboy so I could start my...

what would adding a 3rd yeast do that the 2nd one didn't?

Didn't take a og kit claimed it would be 1.110, stirred it a bit to ox took another sg today 3 days later and it is the same at 1.022. Added the one tsp per gallon I was to initially and have since added 3 more. Is it junk at this point?

Sorry, forgot to post that. 1.022, doesn't have a taste of alcohol though.

Mixed up on Saturday and it bubbled licely for 2 days (once ever 2-3 seconds) now it has slowed to no bubbling at all in a minute. Used 6 lbs of malt, 1 oz of hops, boiled for 30 minutes, 6 lbs of wildflower honey for a total of 5 gallons. Added rehydrated d-47 and nutrients. Yesterday...

Stirred for 10-15 minutes on that batch. Interestingly enough the secondary fermenter airlock is bubbling about every 2 seconds since moving over. The primary with the now braggot in it is at that same 5-6 seconds that I got with the sweet mead. Should I have the glass cartboy in a dark...

Thanks for the help. I used Wyeast 4184 for the yeast. Today was 2 weeks so following the directions I moved it over to the secondary. Had a SG of 1.015 and made a batch of Braggot to put in the primary. The Braggot had 6lbs of malt and 6lbs of wildflower honey with a l-47 yeast. 5 gallons...

Cool wan't expecting much from the cider. Just wanted to get it closer to full when I move it to my cartboy which is 6 gallons and that was what I had in the fridge.

Just joined and started my first batch of mead last week.

Hi neighbor, I'm also new to brewing. Just started my first batch of mead last week. Ordered most of my supplies online but for beer and wine I would suspect www.lancasterhomebrew.com would have everything you'd need. Ben