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Cider on the left, mead on the right. Cider is a blend of apples I picked and juiced (Cortland, Jonathan, Spigold, Fuju, Crab.) My first attempt at cider- hopefully it's tasty. There's a lot of sediment/pulp that has settled out. At some point I'll have to rack off that stuff and add a...

I have a huge amount of sediment in my primary- sent a bunch of apples through a juicer and a lot of extra pulp settled out. I want to rack off the sediment but then I'll lose about 1/4 of the volume. Should I top it off with more fresh cider or what?

I've got a small batch (1 gallon) of mead in primary that won't be ready to rack for another few weeks. I was thinking of topping off with a honey-water mixture of approximately the same proportions as the original batch. Is this an acceptable practice? I've seen a few posts here concerned with...