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So last night me and the old lady were up till 1:30 am prepping fruit and racking our first mead attempt over the fruit ( already had been transferred from primary to secondary, been in secondary for about a month to finish out fermenting). Looks and smells pretty good now. Let me know what you...

My plan has been to do a strickly traditional mead in primary, 12 lbs of star thistle honey, 5lbs of wildflower, water, and 71B yeast. its been racked to secondary already and now I wanna go ahead and seporate the original 5 gallon into individual 1 gallons, each with different flavoring...

Once mead is placed into the secondary, is it necessary to store the carboy in the dark? As it sits its in a cool room in my basment in the farthest corner from any sunlight. Would placing it in the dark help for clearing or matter in any way, kinda read some conflicating ideas and had no idea...

I transferred my first batch of mead into the secondary a little over two wweks ago, for the first few days it seemed to be clearing pretty well. There is about a 1/2 inch of sediment on the bottom. But after that the level of clarity has not changed since. How long would it typically take to...

So this morning I racked my first mead attempt into the glass carboy for secondary fermentation. Will be racking off of this once it clears into seperate 1 gallon jugs with different flavoring in each to see which I like better, or really just to have some variety to start with. Original base...

So started my first batch of traditional, which after secondary fermentation will be split into 5 different 1 gallon batches for flavoring. Since last thursday when I started the primary fermentation, it has been bubbling out of the airlock quite nicely. I just went and looked at it, and the...

So i've been doing a lot of research and me and the wife really want to try making mead. Neither of us have tasted it before, or brewed before, but have found many recipes that sound very good. My question is this. We were able to get a pretty good deal on an equipment kit (fermenter, carboy...