Hello mead heads,
I’m getting some Voss kveik yeast from Omega yeast in Chicago. I want to make a cyser and the temp range on this one says 62-95 degrees F. However it also says best fermented hot! I do not have temp control equipment and my basement where it would be is 68 F. Can anybody tell...
G'day all,
I was hoping someone could give me a clue as to the off taste that is happening with my cyser.
Made on about 4 quarts of apply juice and a pound of honey.
Used Fermaid K and DAP and went to about 13-14%
Into secondary I also added:
juice of 3 lemons
1 ounce lemon rind
1/2 tsp...
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So exactly a week ago I started my first ever homebrew. I bought two gallon jugs of apple cider from Whole Foods, and left one as is, and the other poured 1.5 lbs of honey into. Then I added 1tsp of Yeast Nutrient (Urea and Diammonium Phosphate) and 1/2 tsp of pectic enzyme to each jug...
So I have been looking for apple varieties for fermentation, and the best I could find was here.
Thing is, besides McIntosh, Liberty, and Cortland, these aren't really the varieties I typically find in either the produce section of the grocery store, or the gurneys or jung catalogs.
Are there...
I'm getting ready to make my first mead, an apple mead. I was planning to make a 3 gallon batch with 2 gallons apple juice (pasturized w/ no preservatives) and a gallon of water with around 9 lbs of honey. I made a starter yesterday for my White Labs sweet mead yeast. I filled a half gallon...