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Local bee keeper is advertising 5 gallon pails of cold filtered honey for 150$ my question is (What is cold filtered honey) ?

Just wondering how I should handle Krausen in my traditional. This is a straight traditional using TOSNA. Should I break this up and stir into the mead or just let it be. I am just pass the sugar break and have stopped degassing because I no longer need to feed. My thoughts were to let it...

Short question, is sodium metabisulphite ok for sanitizing or will the salt residue hurt my mead ?

Will someone please tell me how to make a (swamp cooler) for my mead In fermentation bucket. I would appreciate any help ✌️

I use buckets for my primary so it’s easy to put fruit in mesh bags to ferment,but how in the world do you put fruit in narrow mouth carboys after racking ? When you rack to secondary aren’t you suppose to fill carboy with no head space? I am brain dead on this and need help. This is probably...

I have read that we can weigh the honey to get our SG before we add water. Is there a formula for this?

This is a 6 gallon JAOM/BOMM Recipe. All ingredients were 6 timed with a 1388 starter. My sg was 1.120 on April 28, next reading on May 3rd was 1.090. Today may 8th reading was 1.070 . This doesn’t look right to me. Really slow. I don’t know what to do except yell for help. Here is picture I...

I was making a starter using wyeast 1388,smacked the pack and waited 3hours. When I went to get the pack I noticed it was not as fat as I remembered.(I know that should have raised many red flags but alas it didn’t)I sanitized the pack gave it a shake and poured, that’s when I saw the unbroken...

I have read heating honey to make mead is not being Practiced anymore. Therefore is buying homogenized pasteurized orange blossom honey a bad idea or will it be ok to make my mead with?

Just wondering what the price of honey is in other areas of the country? In my area of New York I have found a place that charges $3.75 a pound plus tax of course. I have yet to taste this honey as I just found this place. Sure hope it is good as the price is all most too good to be true.The...

I am starting my plans to brew a 6 gal batch of Sweet Meadowfoam BOMM. My first question is, will this be a good starter for a 6 gal batch?; 1 lb of honey,1TBSP of fermaid O, water to 2 liters and 1 activated smack pack of wyeast 1388. Next question is, I don’t have a flask so can I use a 1 gal...

I have read about sanitized marbles used to fill head space,will someone please explain how to use,how many to use and where to get the marbles.

I am making a JAOM-BOMM hybrid My question is,do I treat it like a JAOM and just put it in a closet or like a BOMM and degass it daily?

I would like to make 6 gallons of mead using this recipe that is for 1 gallon. My question is, can I times this recipe by 6 ? 3 1/4 lb. Honey 7 pts. Water 3 tsp. Malic Acid 1 1/2 tsp. Tartaric Acid 1/4 tsp. Tannin 3/4 tsp. Energizer 2...