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So I had three jugs of mead going ... two are "flavoured" and one is just straight traditional mead that I use to top up the other two jugs once they've been racked. Anyway, that traditional mead I just had it lying around outside without an air-lock (it had a cloth tied over it). I just...

I know none of them look exactly "pretty", but if I do a Google search, there's lots of pictures of relatively neat looking scobies. Mine looks like a mess with gross little tentacles hanging off it and stuff. Do people take them out and trim them to look really neat or something? This is what...

Thread title says it all. I tried to peel them off but now they're covered in sticky glue and half torn off labels.

Hey, I have two jugs of braggot going - it's a simple recipe with pellet hops, 1/2 honey and 1/2 amber beer malt extract and larger yeast. What is weird is they are both exactly the same (they even came from the same mixture pot!), but one of them hasn't bubbled at all for almost a week while...

Hello again, I've only just started this hobby, it's all very exciting. Anyway, today I mixed together a must that was just 1.5kg of honey and 1 teaspoon of yeast in a gallon jug, that's all. I have a couple of others going where I followed a recipe from the Internet that included other...

I have a couple of quick questions about yeast. First off, in the beginner video I watched (see my other thread), they said just to use bread yeast for your first time. I just got some yeast out of the cupboard and used that. Now that everything is done, I noticed that it said on the yeast...

Hello... I've never brewed anything before. I stumbled across a YouTube video on how to make mead (linked below) and thought I'd give it a shot. I will update this thread with my progress. I've made two gallon jugs, the first one I did pretty much to the recipe that used. I made a mistake in...

Hello! I'm actually an Australian, living in Sweden, but hello from Sweden anyway. I stumbled across this video about a week ago on youtube by CS Mead and More: I had no idea making mead was so simple. Anyway, just a few days later and I've got two gallon jars full of mead must. In one of...

I just picked one up from an online store after watching some YouTube videos on how to make mead. Unfortunately the markings do not look familar to any of the YouTube tutorials or other resources I can find describing how to use a hydrometer. On the black tip at the top (marked "wine") the...

Hello, I am a complete newb ... I just made my first mead must about an hour ago. I'd like to try and replicate the "beer mead" that is served in the medieval and viking restaurants where I live (Stockholm, Sweden). It tastes more like beer than wine. I'm guessing it's just a weak (~5%) mead...