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Planning Next Melomel Today 05:13 PM RC212 it is. I never tried it before, so it will be good to see how it turns out. I will probably be doing blackberries for this. Thank you for...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	maxmurder
Racking into secondary on top of blueberries - problem with oxygenation? Today 02:27 PM Alien1099, I was thinking blueberries, but I might do blackberries. Never tried that before....	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	maxmurder
DV10 yeast, does this look normal? Yesterday 08:06 PM That's not an infection. However, you do want to get rid of the sulfur odor. What's your gravity?...	Troubleshooting your Mead	Medsen Fey
Cranberry Melomel, bottling and sorbate Yesterday 07:58 PM If your yeast is below the ABV tolerance level, as it is in this case, you are always wise to use sorbate and sulfite before bottling....	Troubleshooting your Mead	Medsen Fey
Prestige WD yeast? 05-19-2013 09:05 PM Thanks Medsen, I actually have decided to use the K1V on my next batch, for which I have already ordered the honey. For this batch the OG came in ...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	Shodan
Sanitation 05-19-2013 08:41 PM Hot water works if you give it enough time. Baking things in the oven does too. Even better is to put them in a pressure cooker. If you have one th...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	kuri
Small batch contracting the taste of previous contents... 05-19-2013 05:20 PM Well seeing as a lot of the flavour of citrus fruit comes from citric acid, maybe something to reduce the pH a bit might help ? Check the pH and then...	Troubleshooting your Mead	fatbloke
First batch on a whim.... 05-19-2013 01:21 PM Trying to read docs with complex formatting is a bit of a pain. I do read ebooks on my phone but they're formatted to be read on various types of scre...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	fatbloke
Quick Checkup - First Mead Going Well? 05-18-2013 10:56 AM This is my first mead, my initial goal was a sweet mead but my 71B finished at 0.998. Putting it at 18% ABV. So after fermentation finished (same g...	Troubleshooting your Mead	aaron1983
Should I repitch? 05-18-2013 10:11 AM Here it is today. Bottled and tastes pretty fantastic. I pushed the cork a little deep on a bottle so we chilled it off and drank it last night. It ...	Mead NewBees - Post your Questions Here	Telkey

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