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I'm going to buy a gallon of spring water tomorrow and pitch some D47 yeast with Fermaid 0 added to all 3 gallon jugs as I will have 3 jugs after drawing off 1/3 of gallon from the 2 mead jugs adding it to the new gallon jug and topping off with the new yeast and nutrient. Thanks for all the...

The yeast we used was new store bought Lalvin D47.

I just saw your post and ordered Fermaid O. It comes in a 2 oz packet. How much would I add to each gallon jug? Another question, if 2kgs per gallon is too much and created a must that would be hard to ferment, would diluting the must by 1/3 work? I have another empty 1 gallon jug and thought if...

Campden tablets seem like the way...getting rid of chlorine and chloramines and preventing a degrading of the taste of your beer. It's cheap insurance and I will do it. Thanks for the advice!

We put together a simple honey mead and added orange slices and raisins for yeast nutrient(about the size of small raisin box per gallon jug) and the added Mangrove Jack Mead yeast. After 3 weeks with little airlock action the mead was set up to be racked to new clean 1 gallon jugs(2 jugs...

Good idea...bottled water :) Another fellow here said how we spend all this money on the hardware but overlook the water. As beer is mostly water it makes so much sense to have a nice start point for your brew. Thanks!

Great advice! I can access my towns latest water report and have looked at it but I really didn't know what to look. Could you please tell me which minerals affect water quality with regards to making beer? Thanks again.

Thanks for advice :) I have a already bought a couple different all grain beer kits that I will be using. I have seen some kits use liquid extract and might try those later as well. You mentioned proper mash PH, what does that mean? I didn't know there was a target PH range for the wort to reach.

I am new to brewing and am ready to brew my first kit beer this weekend. When transferring from my 5 gal brew machine to my fermenter, should I let it pour out of the tap with as little agitation as possible? I have seen some guys stir there yeast into there wort saying the oxygen helps the...

Hi, I'm new to brewing and have seen a few brewers recommending bottled water, mineral water, distilled water and others using municipal water. My town pulls water from Lake Ontario and the PH is between 7.02 and 7.38. There is a residual chlorine amount too. Would using town water to brew...