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Until you get your mead bible, this website can provide loads of info: Got Mead - Mead (honeywine) making, mead drinking, mead recipes - Mead NewBee Guide This forum also has basically every question already answered.If you cannot find the answer while searching, ORRRRR it was answered more...

Okay so I am in for whatever project. I really like the idea of a choco bochet. Anyone here with Bochet experience who wants to put forward a recipe? Should we as a board agree on something? Bochet? Choco? High SG? Xtreme Deliciousness?!

Def. second using a mesh bag, haha. I learned the hard way with my first one.

I doubt you would be saving much money. 5 gallon plastic carboys can be bought for 30 bucks. Add $3 for the airlock and stopper and you get a whopping $33 for the 5 gallon setup one gallon glass jugs where I am cost 6 bucks. Lets assume you can get them cheap, 5 dollar holla type deals. So...

Not sure about that, Im sure someone will have an answer though. What I can say though, is that you will be wishing you mad a full 5gallons. The effort for five gallons is about the same for one gallon, and a plastic 5 gallon carboy is only about 25 bucks. Just go for the five gallons, it is...

Hey guys, So as I was perusing netflix, I found this move, Blood into Wine(which was pretty good), and the head vintner said that they make sure not to give the little yeasties ALL the nutrition they need because he believed that the result of a little yeast "stress" would add complexity to...

Agreed, agreed, it all depends on how you top off carboys or how far you fill bottles.

I have never heard that mead does not age in a carboy. Think of it from the mead's perspective. Being in a bottle and carboy are the same situation. Many people seem to have the belief that smaller quantities of beverage, be it mead, wine or beer, will "age" faster than larger quantities. As...

if you use canned pumpkin, have fun racking, haha. I have a pumpkin cyser. I threw in 5 ounces canned pumpkin in a one gallon class jug. It will need to be strained, becasue the pumpkin has not settled down past three inches.

too little oak for too long I heard is something you want to avoid. The process is not very..."linear?" As in, you put in oak, and the flavor will change depending on the amount of time it is in, the alcohol content, toast, the and the oak to mead surface ratio. So if you add say an ounce of...

I think the reason you are finding a lack of response is that a lot of people dont really have a set recipe for oaking. I just follow wine instructions, and there seems to be a huge amount of variation in even that. As far as I know, the only form of oaking with considerable "testing" and that...

A cambridge HBS in MA has half gallons for 5 bucks

I too wonder why not elevate the original legs with cinder blocks or a wooden box covered with sheet metal? seems much cheaper and safer.

I believe torrified wheat is used for head retention. but instead of racking onto grains, they are steeped

pics or it didnt happen

wormwood is probably the most bitter herb you will ever brew with. A tiny amount will result in a large amount of bitter.

you willneeed to tell us your recipe and process for making this mead. Medicinal is a taste that should age out. We also need times. When did you start, how long has it aged.

no way to tell from our end of the screen. haha How long did you leave it in primary? what size vessel are you using for how many gallons? it all depends, but most likely it will be fun, perhaps its will bubble up again though

could the bee keeper have used a lot of smoke when collecting the honey and thus imparted it to the honey?

14.4 ABV may have been the potential for the must to get to, but as far as I am aware bakers yeast will not push beyond 8 percent.