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I have miscalculated up to how much abv the yeast I am using can go so I tried cold crashing it by putting it in the fridge. The first day after it look like the fermentation completely stopped, but the day after it cintuined going at the same pace as it was before I put it in the fridge. I'm...

The mead looks beautiful and clear, but the readings I'm getting make no sense to me. OG was 1.115, I racked to secondary after about 3 weeks and the abv was around 10%, but the gravity was at 1.07 which seems too high to me. Today I reracked after another month and the gravity fell to 1.065...

So I wanted to make my first Melomel and after the fermentation slowed down drastically (basically stopped) and the ABV was around 13% I decided to rack it over some cherries in secondary. Now as far as I understood it, if you want to add fruit to a Melomel in secondary you don't want it to...