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I've been driving myself nuts, trying to figure out a honey quantity for a 3 gallon batch of a Cyser.... I've been unable to figure out the GotMead calculator for an additional sugar of Apple JUICE (apples, yes, but not apple JUICE). I'm probably just not smart enough... I'm going for a 3...

I'm not sure what forum would be best for this question, so here goes! I'm looking at recipes for a chocolate liqueur (trying to reproduce a local product I had a bottle of last year), that all contain milk/cream and about 15-20% ABV. I haven't settled on a recipe yet, but that's not the...

I've only brewed meads and ciders so far, but have started getting interested in brewing Russian Kvass (or Kvas, there seems to be some dispute on how to translate it...). I've also thought idly about trying to "brew" some "hard soda" type beverages. So, as much as a thought experiment as...

I may have an opportunity to buy a 5 gallon bucket (60lbs, I think) of "Glorybee Bakers Light Amber Honey" locally for $75. Mead is ONE use I have for it. I know it's a heat-treated, blended, honey probably with not much character designed for baking. I'm wondering if it might do OK for mead...

I've been away from Mead making for a couple years, and finally have the space to start up again ( I moved, and am finally getting unpacked properly!). I received a gift set of 8 different honeys for Christmas, and though I haven't weighted them to see how much is in each one (probably not...

So, I was at the local brew store, buying some yeast for a batch of mead.... and see this "Mangrove Jacks Craft Series Cider Yeast - M02". And as I was picking up a new airlock, I remembered the unopened gallon of apple juice (organic, pasteurized, no preservatives, layer of schmutz on the...

I've been reading various "chocolate mead" recipe's for days, until I've utterly confused myself, and am back at square one... So NOW I'm going to ask for advice. Here's what I know - I want to make a "semi-sweet" chocolate mead. (I am aware that I'm in for at LEAST a couple years of aging...

So having just checked the gravity of my second ever 3 gallon batch of mead (1.008), I'm getting ahead of myself, and thinking "once I make what turns out to be a really good batch", how would I bottle it to keep 3-4 bottles (at least) long enough for my nieces to receive a bottle on their...

Just started my second ever batch of mead (first was a JAOM, now bottle aging). My goal is a fairly mildly flavored, fairly balanced between "dry" and "sweet" mead. So here's what's in the Carboy now; 3 Gallon Batch: 2.3 quarts Snowberry Honey (approximately 6.7 lbs, my scale is broken...

OK, so I hardly ever drink hard liquor.. so don't have a bottle of the oft-recommended Vodka handy.. But a local grocery store was going out of business and I picked up a 375ml bottle of Gin for $2.00... So, as I gather my tools and wits to start a new batch of Mead - would there be any...

I finished my very first batch of mead a month ago (a JOAM, with some added Ginger). It needs some more aging to know for sure how it turned out, but it's pretty promising (little "hot", and a little bitter, but It's aging in bottles). Now that my 3 gallon Carboy is empty, I'm looking at...

This might seem a little silly to some... I'm waiting for my very first batch of Mead (a JAOM) to finish bubbling, and for the fruit to to start dropping, so I can actually TRY a Mead. I'm also continueing my genealogy research... currently focusing on ancestors from Yorkshire England, in...

I'm a rank newbie, doing a lot of reading... and planning for my 2nd (or maybe third, depending on how my week-old batch of JAOM comes out) batch of Mead somewhere down the road. I'm not jumping into creating my own recipe yet... I ain't that smart. Like I said, it's at least six months down...

I might have screwed this up already! I think I may have erred in my scaling up... I could use some more experienced advice (rank brewing/fermenting noob here... but I DID read all 1400+ posts in the JAOM thread in the Recipe section! Here was my goal and how I think I messed up. I had...

I'm a total brewing newbie (except for some fermented soda's... I make a decent lemon-ginger soda), and thinking about taking up some Mead making... Busily reading about Joe's Ancient Orange Mead in the Recipe forum. I'm wondering if there's a "Traditional Mead" on the commercial market that...