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    When to Distil?

    My friend tells me to distil my mash as soon as it's done fermenting (to him, this means as soon as the airlock stops bubbling, he doesn't use a hydrometer). Is this correct? Or should I let my wine clear before running it? I know I should wait a couple of weeks for the yeast to clean up after...
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    Aerating/degassing Wine

    Does regular fruit/grape wine need to be aerated and de gassed as much as mead does? I understand that mead is much harder to infect than wine or beer, so I'm just wondering if regular wine needs to be opened to be degassed and aerated as much (daily) as mead does?
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    Welch's Concord Grape Wine (yeast activity question)

    So I made a must consisting of 6 1.3L bottles of Welch's Concord grape juice, 5kg sugar, 16L of water and a bunch of white grapes and red table grapes crushed, with the juice added to the must and the grapes themselves tied into cheese cloth and immersed in the wine. The yeast I used is Lalvin...
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    Water From an Artesian Well

    Sorry, I just posted this in the mead forum but realized it will get more and possibly better replies here. I have a natural well nearby that is reported to have the purest water in the world. Would this be safe to use in mead without boiling? How would it compare to bottled water? My...
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    Using water from an artesian well

    I have a natural well nearby that is reported to have the purest water in the world. Would this be safe to use in mead without boiling? How would it compare to bottled water? My local Walmart sells bottled springwater from a nearby town atop the Niagra Escarpment in the opposite direction of...
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    Something crazy hapened! (BOMM recipe related)

    Ok, something crazy happened! :O I had an old bag of 1388 from last year that I didn't end up using. I thought it was done for. A few days ago I broke the packet to see what would happen. Well lo and behold, today I look at it and it expanded like a baloon! Does this mean the yeast is still...
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    First brew ever. I can use advice. I may have messed up.

    So I decided to take up home brewing. I chose a traditional style mead as my first project simply because mead is so appealing to me. I did not choose to follow a specific recipe and instead opted to follow basic techniques and methods to brew my mead. The main issue I ran into following this...
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