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Is there a reason to use a plastic 6 gallon fermenter bucket over a 6 gallon glass carboy for primary fermentation? The reasons I know of so far are the weight of the full container, and that it is easier to clean the wide mouth bucket compared to the glass carboy. Oh and cost. Are there...

My first batch of mead was the following 2 cups honey (wildflower) 3 cups black mission figs water to 1 gallon I started it Feb 8, 2010, before I found this forum. I followed a recipe for 'wild fermentation' mead. I did rack it once, and then I bottled it March 10, thinking...

I made my first 2 1-gallon meads last week from a book that was about wild fermentation. Last night I tried my first batch with yeast. What a difference! This morning the airlock was sitting on the counter next to the gallon of future mead! I cleaned it up, sterilized it again, and now the...

I am so much enjoying my first steps in mead making. I know one thing it is going to teach me is patience!! I have a hard enough time waiting for dinner to be prepared....waiting a year!?!?!? I just started my first two batches of mead...one black mission fig and the other currant and fig...