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Hey! Today I went to see how was my secondary fermentation going, and I saw yeast lees for the second time after the first rack (Which was on August 30, SG 1.012, EC-1118, so it's been about 1 week after the rack). My question is, I read a essay that said that leaving the mead on the yeast...

Hey! I was brewing this raspberry wine, and I saw that there was this strange "gooey" foam/kruse forming on top. I was wondering if this was normal, because it looks a little bit gross, like mushroomy. Thanks a lot, and sorry for the picture being a lilittle dark!

I was wondering if SNAS is really needed or contributes greatly to reduce off flavors. If I'm not mistaken, in 2 identical batches, SNAS would reduce the fermentation time in the same conditions. Wouldn't the "rush" produce off flavors stressing the not-so-capable yeast by the "natural...

I made two half gallon melomel batches, one with EC-1118 and other one with bread yeast to taste the difference. The bread yeast one was made with lemon (whole, not zest) and the other one with green apples (I don't remember which kind of green apple). The lemon one was bottled 3 weeks ago, and...

I know this may be the most basic question ever asked here, but, how do you usually top mead after discarding the hydrometer liquid? Filtered water/tap water, mixture of water and honey? Thanks!

Hey, first of all thanks for entering my thread and reading :) Today I made a batch of a little bit more than a half gal (1.5 liters) of EdWort's Apfelwein. I scaled down the ingredients. This is the recipe, scaled down 1.4 Lt of fresh pasteurized apple juice 80 gr of sugar Pitched 5g of...

Hey, first of all thanks for entering my thread and reading :) Last Wednesday I made a batch of 1.5 Gal (5 liters) of the basic Mead from the book "The Compleat Meadmaker". The recipe called for 5 gal, but I scaled down the ingredients. This is the recipe, scaled down Heat Method: 1.8Kg or 4...

Hey, first of all thanks for entering my thread and reading :) Today, I made a batch of a little bit less than half gallon (1.5 Liters exactly) to try my luck in winemaking, following a ECKraus recipe. I scaled down all the ingredients and ended up in something like this: 1.3 liters of...

Hello! I've been visiting this forum for a while now and I'm a little bit reluctant of joining forums like this, but I realized that so many folks around here were so eager to help and nice with other people, I decided to join, and to ask some questions too, which are going to be posted in their...