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How about when adding nutrients? I have read you should stir the must just before adding your nutrients to avoid explosions.

I don’t want to put fruits in mead without mesh bags so I guess I will just put fruit in primary with mesh bag. thank you Harleybrew32 72 year old brain ain’t working too good today lol

I use buckets for my primary so it’s easy to put fruit in mesh bags to ferment,but how in the world do you put fruit in narrow mouth carboys after racking ? When you rack to secondary aren’t you suppose to fill carboy with no head space? I am brain dead on this and need help. This is probably...

Hi Grump, I live in a rural area too. My well water is the same as yours so what I did was install a water softener for the pipes sake and then a reverse osmosis system for drinking and cooking with. Oh I forgot to mention the ultra violet lamp also,can’t be safe enough ya know.

Brother, no problems :cool:

Thank you,this helps alot

Now that sounds good

Thank you

I have read that we can weigh the honey to get our SG before we add water. Is there a formula for this?

rlmiller10 , you say that you weigh the honey for the desired SG.. can you or anyone please explain how to go about this.. Is there a formula I can use? Thank you

Thank you, that makes sense ( even to me)

Yooper,you mention to pour the tablet and mead in gently (without splashing). May I ask why? thank you

”duh” lol

what does LHBS stand for ?

the temperature will be corrected as much as I can ,a blanket or two will have to do. I have a handbook from Scott’s lab. on the way.. I hear it has great information on yeast and just about everything. still snowing here lol

I got the starter recipe from Bray’s site I think the temperature is affecting things, it’s snowing here right now lol

At night low 60’s , during the day 68 to 70 here Is picture before I break cap..

This is a 6 gallon JAOM/BOMM Recipe. All ingredients were 6 timed with a 1388 starter. My sg was 1.120 on April 28, next reading on May 3rd was 1.090. Today may 8th reading was 1.070 . This doesn’t look right to me. Really slow. I don’t know what to do except yell for help. Here is picture I...

6 gallon JAOM-BOMM just put into primary bucket..