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	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here (48 Viewing) IMPORTANT: Please post your EXACT recipe, ALL ingredients and the quantities you used.	4 Months In Primary - What... by smokepole Today 06:47 PM	3,195	30,991
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	Ingredients for Mead What kind of honey should I use? What about fruit? What about grain, spices, herbs, chiles or my neighbors annoying cat? This is the place to go.	Private	0	0
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	Mead Making Equipment What the heck is a lees stirrer? There's an auto siphon? Enolmatic...that just sounds...wrong! If you have questions about equipment this is your destination.	Private	0	0
	Troubleshooting your Mead (9 Viewing) VERY VERY IMPORTANT: Please post your EXACT recipe, ALL ingredients and the quantities you used so the Mead Mentors can give you accurate feedback.	Must being pushed into... by Marshmallow Blue Today 12:30 PM	580	5,595
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	Beer, Honey? Do you make beer? Want to post your beer recipes? Beer can be made quick, and can be a great stopgap while you wait for your mead to age out......	Private	0	0
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4 Months In Primary - What next? Today 06:47 PM Your going to need a hydrometer to tell if its done, I'll assume you meant 15 lbs honey in 5 gallon batch. Or was that 15 gallons in 50 gallon batch, ...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	smokepole
3rd batch - Tupelo honey Today 06:18 PM If you use K1V, you'll end up with a high-ABV batch unless you start with a lower gravity, ferment dry, then stabilize and backsweeten. There's nothin...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	Medsen Fey
Question on JAO with Pic Today 02:28 PM I can't get over how much fermenting this thing is doin....	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	McJeff
Cider in mead? Today 01:35 PM Hard cider plus mead, chilled in a glass, is a drink called a Bee Sting!...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	huesmann
First batch racked - some questions! Today 01:29 PM Regarding your siphon, they make these little plastic ribbed clamps that you can use to progressively pinch down the hose to limit the flow. Alternat...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	huesmann
Quick questions, day 3 no noticeable activity...advice please? Today 01:13 PM 1.15 is a pretty high gravity must. If you're OK with a little less pop in your mead, try diluting it to get the yeasties going?...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	huesmann
Must being pushed into airlock. Today 12:30 PM Just for the sake of my point. The volume doesn't matter if you fill the volume to the top. I've cut it pretty close to having headspace issues with...	Troubleshooting your Mead	Marshmallow Blue
My mead Today 11:22 AM The pith is where all the bitterness resides for the most part. You may also find that bitterness tolerability is different from person to person. I m...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	Marshmallow Blue
Low og dry sparkling mead Today 10:51 AM Glad I was able to stimulate your noggin... I will be interested to hear how this turns out for you, and what changes you might possibly make as yo...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	B. Goldwater
Oak Cubes Today 10:48 AM Oops, that's 1.5oz for 6gal with 0.5oz in primary (but carried over for aging); and I doubt I'll leave it for more than a year and a half. My standa...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	Bob1016

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