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quick update, i ended up doing 2 batches, i had no way to weigh the honey so i poured out a gallon and then just added water till i got the gravity i was looking for, for a dry mead. ended up with 3 gal 1.124 cuvee yeast and 4 gallon 1.104 montrochet batch. I'll update if it ever turns out

yeah i tried to force carbonate semi sweet cider with campden tablets and a corney keg, it was stable for 3 weeks then i ended up with a case of tasty fountains.

point taken on the yeast, is there anyway to avoid bottle bombs with semi sweet bottle carbonated mead, otherwise im stuck with dry mead anyway

mead builder app is great, thank you guys, going to add 4 or 5 lbs of fruit, i was aiming for dry because i was to bottle condition carbonate a few, and i was worried a semi sweet would leave me with a case of bottle bombs, any thoughts on that? Montrachet yeast is supposed to top out at 13%...

home brewer for 15 years, all grain 4 years, hard cider and jack 2 years, here we go mead went ahead and bought 5 gal of monarchs choice wild flower honey, the price was right. i also bought red star Montrachet and cuvee dry yeast i already have yeast nutrient and energizer and a oxygen...

i really like the graincoat, its 50$ though. if you buy it direct from grainfather.com with the grainfather machine they drop it to 40$, it was Christmas and a present from my wife so she just went for it. so i do like the graincoat , if i hadn't gotten it all together i dont think I'd want to...

Just got it for Christmas, got the jacket also, 80% efficiency first brew out but I ended up with a half gallon over volume , the few American recipes I've seen have a 90 minute boil instead of the hour boil I was used too, second batch 76% efficiency, 90 minute boil was right on the money...

If you want to move away from bottles go to a local home brew shop and get a starter kit with a bucket and airlock, or you can get a gallon jug for small batches, again you local store can get you the jug or an air lock that will fit an apple juice jug or what ever you got, some people like to...

You can try freezing it for an hour to kill the yeast, or gently boiling the bottles for 10 minutes, really anything else will require advanced techniques likeep force carbonating with a corny keg

yeah, i'm going to let it go for a while, i dont have anything on deck, just bottled a irish red that tasted beautiful at every stage. so I'm not itching for something new just yet and i also have a coopers ginger beer going. i know people dont rack allot of ales these days but when i started 15...

hey thank you, i usually like to secondary a couple of days after the fermentation slows down so the C02 pushes the air out, i thought i was good to go. right now i dont have access or room for any kind of temp control, the best i can do is throw some frozen water bottles in the closet :-p , had...

hi this is my first post , i've been extract brewing on and off for 15 years , and i have an extreme off flavor, i was making an american pale ale, 3lb extra pale DME, 1lb wheat DME, some light specialty grains , i had left over, i think it might have been crystal not more then 3 weeks old, 2...