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My brother and I bought the brewers edge Mash and Boil to start apartment brewing. Our sink has a faucet that doesn't allow for attaching anything (it's one of those spray ones that you can pull out). Was looking for a way to cool the wort that doesn't involve diluting with ice water, because...

Is this normal? I started a cherry melomel yesterday, I'm using Knudsens Pure Cherry Juice so there's virtually no haze or residue from the cherries. I pitched a packet of D47, but even in the starter I could tell there was not a lot going on. I figured I might have bought packets that were...

To get to the point, I've made a handful of meads that end up with a strong cough syrup flavor. Among these are Pear melomel, Strawberry melomel, a semi-sweet traditional, blueberry vanilla, and a cyser. All of these came out with medium- to strong- levels of cough syrup flavor. I want to get to...

I've seen this recipe a bunch of places, so I decided to buy the ingredients and give it a shot: 4.5 pounds filtered, unprocessed wildflower honey 1.5 pounds red raspberries Juice of one lemon Juice of one orange 3 tablespoons of strong-brewed black English tea 1 teaspoon yeast nutrient...

At the moment I only make 1 gallon batches and don't have the means to force carb my mead. Being that you can't carbonate mead without a keg system unless you allow it to be extremely dry or very high alcohol (and relying on the yeast to die out at a certain %, which hasn't been too reliable in...

Not really an interesting thread-starter, but more of a personal self-lesson on learning about honey varietals. Last spring I went to a farmers market. There was a stand that was selling unfiltered honey. When I went up, the woman offered me a sample of buckwheat honey and I gladly accepted it...

My last mead was a blueberry vanilla sweet mead. I fermented dry then backsweetened and added the blueberries in secondary. I liked the flavor and the amount of sweetness, but it just seemed flat to me. My current project is a pear mead with about the same sweetness. It's done fermenting already...

I've just racked my traditional mead to secondary, and it ended up finishing at .997 (from OG 1.113 using lalvin 71B-1122). I used about 1/3 buckwheat honey and the rest clover honey, and I'm really unsure about the aftertaste given off by the buckwheat. However, I feel like this is as good an...

I just recently got engaged and my fiance and I have pretty much decided to go with a Hawaiian themed wedding. As its still about 2 years away I was thinking I'd make a mead for the occasion for everyone to enjoy, but can't decide on something that would fit the bill. I've heard of pineapple...

Just bought 3 lbs of Buckwheat honey for a 1 gallon batch of mead. I was wondering if anyone knew firsthand of any spices or fruit that go well with Buckwheat in particular? I haven't had buckwheat mead, but from the tasting the honey as well as descriptions online it seems to finish with a...

I'm looking to do a mead to be ready for fall, and I'm thinking that a Vanilla Cyser with cinnamon would be great, only I haven't really been able to find a recipe for it. Anyone out there that knows one/is able to estimate how much of the ingredients I would need to do a 1 gallon batch of this...

Hey guys! First off, thanks for being such a helpful community where I can find answers to pretty much any question I've had so far. My question today is this: Do any of you have any favorite summer-ish Mead/Melomel recipes you'd recommend? I'm looking to start a 1 gallon this week to be ready...

I started a 1 gallon batch of strawberry Mead in June, it finished pretty dry from 1.080 to 0.990. (Yeast was 71B-1122) I racked to my secondary, no air bubbles, no problems. Then I racked off the lees about a month later, and had to top off with some water. Within a week I had tiny CO2 bubbles...

Hey guys. So I had my strawberry melomel sitting in my secondary for a while and it cleared up pretty well, but when I tasted it I wanted more strawberry flavor. So when I racked off the lees I added a fresh pound of strawberries. Only problem is now I have this ball of what I believe is pectin...

Hey all, thanks ahead of time for any feedback. I started my first mead yesterday, it's a pretty basic 1 gallon batch of strawberry melomel. I just have a few questions for you guys. First, the basic info: 3 pounds Clover Honey 2 pounds strawberries (frozen for one day with stems removed) 1...