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I have a regular plastic bottling bucket with a tap near the bottom and a snap on lid that has a built in rubber gasket. Im assuming this makes it air tight. For my primary I know i need to ferment in here, but im not sure how to allow the pressure to escape using this setup. I have seen lids...

Do you know where I can get the fruit possibly online (and not for ridiculous amounts of money)? Im in upstate NY and we dont have many cacti up here lol

Can you clarify what you men by degas or point me to a good description of how to do it? Sorry if it is a remedial question but im new!

Alright great! Thanks for the help. I cant wait to get started on it. I am just going to go by the airlock activity as well b/c i dont currently know where my hydro is. I just need to figure out where to get the prickly pears

So you only added nutrients once? I think that is what the recipe recommends. How long did it take for fermentation to complete for you? And how does one know when a prickly pear is ripe? lol

Hi all, so I recently got into brewing beer and mead has suddenly caught my interest. I am planing on making Charlie Papazian's Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit Mead. Now I don't wanna invest a year or so in this to not have it turn out well, so I have a few questions. 1. Where is the best place to...