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I have been brewing with purified water for all my brewing applications, but I don't condition the water. I was wondering about the science behind Gypsum and Irish Moss. I don't use either, but see that many people do. What does it do for the water? Why is it beneficial?

Brewdude I have heard you know a thing or two about degassing... Good luck on the mead I am looking forward to a bottle comming my way...:mug:

I guess my paranoia got the best of me because this morning when I woke up I have good airlock activity. I clocked her at about every 4 seconds. Thinking about adding some fruit to it, but cannot decide on what flavor. I am hopeing that if I put some fruit in secondary it will be ready to...

As for making the mead it was a shoot then aim process. I appreciate the help and I am going give it some time. If it doesn't have any activity by tuesday night I am going to pitch Lalvin EC-1118 to give it a kick start. I will keep you updated. Thanks Dan

The recipe came from a small pamphlet that is purple called Winemakes Recipe Handbook. It is an extrapalation for the Dry Mead Recipe that was originally for 1 gallon. Everything was multiplied by 5 in order to achieve the extapalation for 5 gallons.

First I would like to say I followed a recipe given to me and this was before I did any research on what I was doing exactly. As I understand now that less is more in mead making. At any rate. The Starter 6 Cups of H2O 1lb honey 1 packet Levin D-47 Boiled H20 and put honey in when...

Made a yeast starter for my 5 gallon batch mead with D-47. Activly fermented within an hour. Was in the small carboy for 2 days. Mixed up the water and the honey and other ingredients and pitched the starter into the must the next day (day 2/today). Currently it has been about 5 hours and...

Hi guys my name is Dan and I just started brewing about a year ago. As to date I have made 4 beers (one unfortunate accident) 2 Wines, and I have a mead in primary right now. I have enjoyed the info comming from this site and decided to join. I hope I will have something useful to add soon.