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Damn I got some problem. The airlock was bubbling till yesterday for sure, I checked it on the evening and it bubbled every ~35 seconds. Now I checked it and guess what - no bubbling! And the co2 firstly enters the airlock trying to get out, and then finds another easier way! Is the mead ruined...

For both empty bottles from brewstore and bottles of beer you drink - is it enough to only rinse the bottles well after pouring the beer (or if empty bottles from brewstore to get rid of dust) and not to scrub it (if the bottom looks clean), and then just sanitize before next bottling? What do...

I'm happy to hear you do that too. I wasted lots of time and sanitizer for the batches I brewed till now. And one more question - how much time should the Starsan sanitizer be in contact with the equipment? The guy in the video said that even 1 second is enough, but the homebrew shop told me it...

Hi. I saw a video in youtube in which the brewer used Starsan sanitizer as spray, so instead of filling 2-3 gallons of water in fermenter, he just filled 1 liter sanitizer in sprayer and sprayed on the fermenter and all the equipment that needs to be sanitized. Is it enough for sanitizing...

What's your end gravity usually? Do you think I will have to kill the yeast somehow?

I asked the beer brewing store to give me yeast for mead, and they told me they don't really know what should I use, and gave me yeast that people buy from them for mead brewing. it is used for cider or sparkling wine, it is called Lellamand E491, and according to google it is "not recommended...

So finally I made it. I boiled the oranges for 2 minutes because the zest looked infectious, and the result looks nice. The starting gravity I have is 1.130, I hope the wine yeast I used will decrease it enough. oh, I used only 2 medium sized oranges for 2.5 gallons, so should I add more in a...

I'm from Israel, it wasn't me who stored the oranges in freezer, I got it from a orange juice seller in a market, he bought lots of oranges in the end of the last winter and stored it in freezer to keep selling orange juice during the summer. But it looks like the oranges he has were thawed...

Ok, I'll follow the recipe. I bought all the ingredients, but there are no good oranges in the market, it's not the season yet. I have 2 options - use green orange (it should become more yellow in few days) which is not a tasty one, or use an orange orange that was stored in freezer from last...

Hi, I have one rubber part in each spigot, so I usually use only one and put it in the outside of the fermenter, while the plastic part tightening it from inside. In the last batch I added another rubber part that I took from another spigot, so then I had one inside the fermenter and one...

I especially aimed for the orange and raisins when I wrote "spices". (accidently I wrote also yeast) Orange spoils in 4 days, so won't it spoil the mead if you don't boil it? (I want a secondary fermentation of 4 months, 6 months in total) and in what temperature should I dissolve the honey so...

hanks for the recipe. But shouldn't I bring water to boil and add the yeast and the spices while it is boil so the mead won't get infected?

Hi, I usually (in all 3 times I made beer :)) add 5 gallons of water to my beer (when the recipe says it is make 5 gallons of beer). The recipes I used didn't mention how much water to add, so I took this as default. how much water should I use? I still brewing only with malt extract, so in...

Hi, yesterday I brew my first beer and I have some questions. (I brew standard wheat beer with both grains and malt extract) 1) I thought I had to add the hops for 10 minutes and then take it out so I put it in a net (the net I used for cooking the grains) and took it out 10 minutes later...