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Right on. Thanks guys. I think my next mead I'll try adding fruit to both primary and secondary and see how it turns out. Got a whack of hand picked sour cherries I've been meaning to turn into mead.

So I've read a lot about additions to mead in primary and alternatively secondary. I've now made mead with additions of fruit and/or spices to both primary and secondary to see what my opinion is on the matter. I feel that both have benefits. My question though would be, has anyone made...

3 JAOM, 4 regular mead and 4 bottles of pear wine.

All went well. Removed all mead from bottles, they were all getting pressurized. Topped up with a bit of water, back sweetened as we wanted it a bit sweeter and then used the suggested potassium sorbate. Worked great! Needed a bit of help re-clearing but it's nice now and ready to drink as it...

Good evening all. I'm Jason from Calgary. 37 married and father to 2 crazy boys, aged 5 and 2. I know lots of people who make wine but it never once occurred to me that you could make beer, or anything else for that matter. Saw a presentation during a course on making beer at home and...

Ah I see. Ok. So if the back sweetening kicks up fermentation then I'll let it finish, rack it, add the k-sorbate and may need to sweeten again. Just play it by ear :)

Hmmm ok, will look into that. I thought campden tablets stoped yeast fermenting... Now I'm a bit confused about why I had the problem in the first place. Do you have to degass mead like you do wine before bottling? If so, I didn't do this.

Thanks for replies everyone. The mead is still quite hot after a taste test, and quite dry. So I sort of took parts of your advise and improvised bit too ;) I ended up putting it all back into carboy, topped up with a bit of water, back sweeted with a bit more honey and then put some...

Hmm. Ok. I'm not sure what to do then. If I put a Camden tablet in each bottle and then re-cork it, will it just leave sediment? Or should I put it all back into a carboy a with a few tablets and let it settle out another few weeks before re-bottling?

So I'm relatively new to the home brewing and I need help saving my first batch of mead. Basic 1 gal of mead but when I originally made it I wasn't as disciplined and could have been. So I don't have meadurements or amounts, just a few notes. Anyhow... I racked it many times over the period...