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Thanks for the honest feedback. I would agree with that. I liked the same beer with a different yeast strain better but that beer didn’t last as long.

You sent me two. I liked the other one better than the belsim. Can't remember the name, it was on the tape I tore off. Both were good but the first I drank was much better.
 
You sent me two. I liked the other one better than the belsim. Can't remember the name, it was on the tape I tore off. Both were good but the first I drank was much better.

I did a 10 gallon batch and split it with WLP001 & my house yeast (50/50 of WY1318 & OYL-052). Both were good but I preferred the “House Yeast” version too. So it’s probably the house yeast version you liked more too. If I still had some bottles of that one I would have included it too.

Now what to crack open while I get ready to keg my session melomel.
 

Do you back sweeten your meads with honey before packaging? If so how much honey do you usually use to how much mead?

I have a session mead (first attempt)that I racked over to some blueberries and strawberries that I’m about to keg. So I guess it’s a melomel now. It started at 1.048 and finished at 0.995 (I added some campden tablets and potassium sorbate after taking the FG reading). So it’s bone dry before the fruit. I have two pounds of Orange Blossom honey to use. I figured I would pull some of it and warm it up in a pan and add the honey. Place that into the keg and rack on top of it and carbonate.

I’ve never had a mead or a melomel before so this is all foreign territory for me. [emoji51]

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Do you back sweeten your meads with honey before packaging? If so how much honey do you usually use to how much mead?

I have a session mead (first attempt)that I racked over to some blueberries and strawberries that I’m about to keg. So I guess it’s a melomel now. It started at 1.048 and finished at 0.995 (I added some campden tablets and potassium sorbate after taking the FG reading). So it’s bone dry before the fruit. I have two pounds of Orange Blossom honey to use. I figured I would pull some of it and warm it up in a pan and add the honey. Place that into the keg and rack on top of it and carbonate.

I’ve never had a mead or a melomel before so this is all foreign territory for me. [emoji51]

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1st time myself. I fermented the peach with the mead. Used 1118..uea bone dry w/no peach. Brewed another with D47 and combined. No back sweetening needed now. I have 2 more 2gal batches going to try the fruit thin in secondary again. Still a ways out bit will post results. Also. using Wal-Mart $12/5lb honey until I get a process down. These come out around 12%. Good luck!

Body is craving protein so Muscle Milk it is..
 
1st time myself. I fermented the peach with the mead. Used 1118..uea bone dry w/no peach. Brewed another with D47 and combined. No back sweetening needed now. I have 2 more 2gal batches going to try the fruit thin in secondary again. Still a ways out bit will post results. Also. using Wal-Mart $12/5lb honey until I get a process down. These come out around 12%. Good luck!

Body is craving protein so Muscle Milk it is..

Thanks for the info! Fingers crossed it turns out for the weekend when family is over.
 
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