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Gotta have something to rack into🤨🤣🤣

@bushpilot , am I wrong? 🤣

For crystallized honey, put it in a pot with some warm water. (If you have a thermometer, try to keep the water under 100°F)....after the honey has been in there for a while, shake it up or stir it the get the crystallized honey to liquefy. Crystallized honey will throw off your gravity...

I typically add my nutrients at the 1/3 & 2/3 sugar breaks, (meaning after 1/3 & 2/3 of the sugars have been consumed). If you find your ferment is moving along quicker than normal, sometimes that schedule would be altered to 24, 48, & 72 hrs. I'm pretty certain yours will be fine if you...

Nope, wants me to join to see it, no extra $$ for that right now. Thanks, though.

To answer your question, yes, it's OK to add sugar or any other fermentable sugar to achieve a higher ABV. Not that it matters, but why not just add more honey instead of sugar? Is it a cost issue? Clover honey along with most wildflower honeys are considered carrier honeys, meaning they...

What's the recipe, please? Thank you, in advance, if you do reply. Happy meading 😎

Yes, you can use Fermaid K in place of the Fermaid O. Fermaid K has DAP in it so, I would recommend adding it before your gravity reaches 1.035 or the yeast may not be able to consume all of it. I hope this helps you. Happy meading 😎

Eventually, you'll wind up like the most of us🤣🤣

Here's a good resource https://www.youtobrew.com/mead-making-101

This sounds very intriguing 🤔. I may have to try something like this on a smaller scale. I'll ask my local beekeeper if he has any comb that he wouldn't sell, if he would consider selling cheaper for the experiment.

Yes, I get these bags, I have many actually. I just wanted to know if the ones from the paint aisle were food safe.....likely cheaper than the 250 micron bags I use.

Agreed. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries & the seeds from blueberries to name a few (+1). Mesh bags are worth their weigh in gold. After the 3rd melomel I made I switched to using bags for all my additives, spices included. I bought some small 3"×4" bags just for spices. Cheap enough...

Are those food safe?

My blueberry melomel, 3 different ways.... I was wrong, batch size was 2.5 Gallons Ingredients for the base blueberry melomel.... 3.25 gr Goferm with 5 gr of QA23 yeast rehydrated with warm water & a shot of blueberry juice from the thawed berries 13 lbs wild frozen blueberries ...(7 lbs for...

To those requesting the recipe, I will post my notes this weekend. This was a 2 gallon batch of blueberry melomel that I split for different flavor profiles.

Ok. I wasn't sure. This seems like a good recipe, but I certainly wouldn't recommend something as complex as this to a new mead maker. Myself, I would scale it down to a 1 gallon batch to try it & see if it needed tweaking before going all out on the 5 gallon batch, but that's just the...

Is this your first mead or have you made meads before?

Everything @DBhomebrew just said😉

Racked 1/2 gallon of blueberry/ lemon /vanilla off of the Hungarian medium toast oak cubes. Wow, is that tasty! 😳 I will be backsweetening that & several others this weekend, then to bottling.