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What do you mean by steep feed? Did you mean step feed? As in put a little bit of the bochet in at a time during fermentation? Also you said the hops help cut the sweetness. Do you think I should add more than what I have?

Hi everyone, First off I apologize if this is not the proper forum for this but I figured the mead makers would be most knowledgeable because of the bochet aspect of this. Anyway, I thought of making a braggot style beverage (more of a beer because of the grain proportions) by mixing an...

To clarify, it has not been on the fruit for the whole 3 weeks. I racked onto the blueberries after the first week.

What is too long with that kind of headspace? I was under the impression that if you still have some active fermentation that the extra headspace would just be filled with gas and oxidation is not an issue yet. I have a 2 gallon batch sitting on blueberries in a 3 gallon carboy that is 3...

I checked again and the gravity is still at 1.010 so it is definitely stable. Will it still benefit from bulk aging at this point even though it has already been racked too early to a secondary(according to opinion)? If so should I just rack it off the chips and back into the carboy for a...

I will definitely keep it in the primary longer next time. I'll check again tonight when I get home but I am pretty sure the it was that low. I did take a taste of it last night after having it on the oak chips a few days and it is not that hot and actually fairly smooth. Maybe the oak chips...

Hey everyone, I have a few questions about a belgian quad I made the other week. First off here is the recipe. 5 gallon 12 lbs 4.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) Bel (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 72.0 % 1 lbs 4.0 oz Pilsner (2 Row) UK (1.0 SRM) Grain 2 7.3 % 11.2 oz Aromatic Malt (26.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.1 % 5.6 oz...

Ha thank you. I had a feeling someone on the Mead forum would make a comment about that. Mead and books about dragons just go well together.

Blueberry Melomel I just started last week and is bubbling away nicely. Spiced Bochet Cider I did in September. Still very hazy and will likely need a lot of time to clear. Orange Pineapple Coconut Melomel i did over the summer. Nice and clear but does not taste that great so far. I...

It was french oak by the way.

Yes I definitely learned. It is now a 5 gallon batch though not 3 because I blended it, but still that is still even too much for a 5 gallon. I stupidly added it without researching how much too add. Oh well I'll work with it.

Ummmm..about half a pound chipped...try not bust on me too much I feel dumb enough already. Once I realized that I used far too much I took it out. I would say it was in there for around 2 weeks.

Thanks guys your comments make me feel better. I'll give it some more time and if that doesn't help I'll make another few gallons to blend with it.

I need some opinions everyone. Here is the story... Last march I made my first attempt at a 5 gallon batch of blueberry melomel. Made some mistakes, one of them was not accounting for space needed and lost from adding blueberries. So I ended up with 4 gallons. I filled a 3 gallon carboy and...

I did something very similar to this minus the actual apple. I did 5 pounds of honey, half a gallon of apple juice and water topped off to 2 gallons with spices. I definitely did not get much action either. My OG was 1.090 and I can't seem to get it to drop below 1.020 using EC-1118. I...

So it turns out my yeast was in fact bad. I pitched new yeast and it started to ferment within a few hours. I seem to have run into another problem though. My airlock was bubbling like crazy for about 5 days and then it just died off real quick. After a week and a half there was almost no...

Just honey, apple juice, water, nutrient, and energizer. It's simple enough, so I can only guess the yeast was bad....?

I just took a gravity reading and it has not changed at all. So there is in fact no fermentation occurring.

Well yes I don't see any activity in the airlock and no i didn't take a gravity reading. One is in a clear jug and I see no activity at all. So you're saying it may be fermenting anyway? I'm just use to bubbles=fermentation.

So I just tried my first bochet cyser this Friday and for some reason it has not started to ferment. Let me give a quick breakdown and let me know if I did something wrong. 2gallon batch: 1. Boiled the honey(5lbs wildflower) for about an hour until it got nice and dark. 2. Added water to it...