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Quick update- 2 weeks later and I'm back from vacation, fermenting seems dead. The smell was concerning, it has a very faint rotton egg smell, but not too strong. I looked up how to deal with this and people suggest splash racking, but I wasn't so sure about that because there's no new CO2...

Around here grolsch are 10.70 for 4 pints. That's ~475ml each, and these bottles are 750ml. I already have amassed about 60 of the grolsch though, I'm just considering alternatives.

Just picked up a couple today. When I opened it the cap came flying off the glass- wire mount and all. I'm a little concerned with the maximum pressure they can handle.

15lb Costco clover honey 5 gallons water 1 packet EC-1118 1tsp DAP, 2tsp Fermax Add to that the stirred aeration and another 1tsp DAP, 2tsp Fermax yesterday, which I regret at the moment. ;) Was going to add some plum flavor after racking, but it's the brewer's best flavor stuff. It's been...

Do you think I'm anywhere near 9% in 6 gallons after 9 days?

Stirring is what I did, yes. I got the refractometer for 21 bucks off amazon- Are those calculators that compensate for readings w/ alcohol inaccurate? What I was planning on doing (because I never got the initial gravity,) was reading when ready for bottling, boiling a 1 cup sample down to...

You're scaring me! Is it about doing it too late in fermentation? I will say that the airlock was still bubbling every 3 seconds, if that matters. https://www.reddit.com/r/mead/wiki/process/aeration_degassing

My first batch I made with my buddy, and he has a certain way of doing things. I made a blonde mead, currently maturing in grolsch bottles. He likes to make it sparkling, so that's what I did. Hopefully they won't explode on me, hah. For my second batch, I started it on the 31st of March and...