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Are you planning on taking this batch to drink?

Your wife is AWESOME!

Not the best thing to use. A bucket leaves too much head space. I would rack back to the carboy.

Awesome! What kind? How is it?

Nothing now. Just pulled out an Irish Red. In the next couple of days I will have White House Honey Porter and an Oberon clone going.

Go piss in a can and hand it to them. Probably wont know the difference. (Joking of course)

Don't assume you're first batches won't be good.

Good. You are supposed to take your OG before pitching yeast.

This may be a silly question, do you have the co2 line open? I've forgotten to open the line and set the pressure. ( hate to admit that).

When ever you are adding water after the boil you want it to be "clean" and sanitized. No chlorine, etc... What i like to do is boil some water the night before and put it in the fridge overnight to cool. Then I have cold sanitized water to add to my wart. Really helps it bring down the temp...

Tart like a lemon our sour like spoiled milk.

I would also "burp" your keg a couple times a day to to release the excess pressure to help reduce the carbonation. The first time I kegged I over carbonated and that's what I did. It only took a couple days.

Good idea.

As far as conditioning beer, it doesn't matter which method you use. As far as carbonating the beer, the method you use will very greatly. Bottling being the longest at three weeks. I've done the quick carbonation method before but ended up over carbonating it and had to goof around with it...

Don't do that. Give him a taster then never give him any more again. Let him know what he is missing!

I think I will leave it as is.

I knew I couldn't wait that long, that's why I went for legging right from the start! Congratulations, it's very rewarding to brew your own quality beer!!!!

Cold crash it. Fruit will drop in a day. Be very careful, any movement can cause the sediment to rue loud your beer. I would suggest just leave it. The mead needs to age any way.

Who? Have a link?

It's an Irish Red. More bitter isn't necessarily a bad thing (in my opinion).