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I've got a caremel apple spice mead bout 3 weeks into bulk aging and it's started to separate into two distinct zones. The top is a darker amber color, bout three inches tall, the bottom foot or so is a golden color. Now I do have a little more headspace than I want, but when I put it in there...

Made a one gallon batch of cardamom cyser, I started with a huge gravity and couldn't get enough o2 to get it to go to dry, finished real syrupy sweet but the flavor was on point. I got this idea from the forums and went out and got a fifth of wild turkey rare breed, mixed them pasteurized them...

I've got a three gallon carboy about to open up and I want to make a super high abv pomogranite mead. I have two main questions, what yeast should I use, and what are the basics of step feeding. I know to get the most ABV I can step feeding is the way I should go, but I'm unclear on how its...

This is my spiced autumn mead right after going into secondary, I left it in primary for one month, there was still co2 forming and cloudy as hell, so I'm assuming there was still at least some miniscule amount of ferment going. I tasted it when siphoning and damn was it good, my recipe is as...

i hear a lot about this and i was justwondering,well, when why and how do you cold crash. is it to stop fermentation, slow it down, clear your mead before bottling, ive heard (read) people use it in referenceto all these things and i just want to know the reasoning and technique. i knowits also...

ive heard its just about the hardiest yeast around but i plan on making a batch today that will be sweet after the yeast dies from alcohol. im thinking 3 pounds of honey, (generic raw honey) 2 pounds of dark brown suger and half a gallon apple juice. my aim is to add very little water and have...

M using a sweet orange peel that's dried and made for beer use, I'm just curious how much of it I should use. It doesn't smell particularly strong and it's only about a cup of them, I plan on 3 pounds honey, 2 pounds brown sugar, half gallon apple juice, and about a quarter cup pepper corns, I'm...

i was just going through a couple forums trying to get hints and tips and i read a couple people say they use microwaves for boiling water. if your just using this method to make boiling water to sterilize equipment its no problem, but using microwaved water as an ingredient is a huge no-go...

i was just wondering if putting a clearig agent (mine is a shellfish product) durring fermentation will affect my yeast, im too close to being done to do it on this batch, but i have a couple of other ones going, will it kill my yeast or will it be fine and just "remurk" once fermentation...

Has any one made " wine " with out the fruit ? Im curious as to how sugar wine would taste, undoubtably it wouldn't be tasty but curiosity is killin me. Just water suger and yeast, lemme know what your thoughts are

just finished my first batch of mead and it is partying hard right now. 3 cinnamon sticks 3 1/4 inch thick slices fresh ginger root 1/2 gallon martenellis gold medal apple juice 2.5 Lbs buckwheat honey water to fill to just under neck of one gallon carboy 1 tblsp yeast nutrient mix...

i found some oak aging barrels online and i was wondering if any of the experienced mead guys could tell me if oak aging is benificial compared to glass bottle aging? :mug:

been here for 3 days made a couple posts withquestions about my first applejack, got honey on the way in the mail to make my first mead, got a buddy brewin at he same time as me and he's on here too, thx for reading (if you do) cheers :mug:

i just got a 2.5 ls of buckwheat honey and im looking for a good mead recipe to start with, id like a traditional but wouldnt mind one withsome added flavor, but im not realy looking for a fruity one either. if you know of any on here that fit the bill or have you could post id be much obliged.

I started my first apple jack a week ago, but I pitched too much yeast for the one gallon and not enough suger. I was wondering if I could split my batch into 2 carboys and keep one applejack and add more suger and make the other one an apple mead by adding the neccesary amount of honey, my...