Questions tagged [mead]
Mead is a fermented beverage that uses honey as the primary source of fermentable sugars.
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Can you use bentonite and Sparkaloid at the same time?
Can you use bentonite and Sparkaloid to clarify at the same time?
Can they be used in the primary fermentation bucket or must they be used after racking?
How long does each require to work?
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What are some good online sources for recipes?
What are some good online sources for recipes? Please specify the type of recipes the site has (extract, all-grain, mead, cider, etc.).
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Cherry vinegar (was supposed to be mead)
Last week I started a cherry mead and discovered yesterday that it had turned to vinegar (and not even nice-tasting cherry-flavoured vinegar - it smelled and tasted awful, though the colour was great)....
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What do you get if you distill mead?
This is just out of curiosity...
I mean if you distill beer, you get whiskey... if you distill wine, you get cognac/brandy... if you distill fermented molasses, you get rum... if you distill ...
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why do you degas wine but not beer?
After reading this post, I was wondering why have I heard of people degassing wine, but never beer? Does one also need to degas mead?
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Alternative/homemade yeast nutrient?
I forgot to add nutrient to my must when I put it in my carboy the other day (first time brewing mead). I fear I won't be able to get to my homebrew store before it's too late, so I'm wondering if I ...
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Possibly infected mead: is it worth keeping?
I tried making cherry mead again (the first time I tried this it got infected). I tried again yesterday, and it looks like I've got some sort of contamination ("infection").
This time I thought that ...
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How to correct Mead with too much citrus?
I put 5 oranges into my first 5 gallon mead and after 3 weeks it tastes overpoweringly like grapefruit. I don't like grapefruit.
At 10 days, I racked 2 gallons into a carboy with 2 lb of mulberry (...
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When to add fruits or berries into mead?
I'm getting a bit confused with adding fruits or berries into mead... Some recipes suggest adding it into the secondary (like purés). On other side there are multiple videos of people fermenting ...
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How to get rid of gas from mead?
I have brewed 5L of mead (1 part honey to 3 parts water). After 9 months I can no longer see any sedimentation in the bottle, however when I taste the mead I can feel it's a little sparkling (besides ...
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How do I un-stuck a mead's fermentation?
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18 pounds of Trader Joe's Mesquite honey, water to 5 gallons, yeast nutrient and energizer (I think it was 1 teaspoon of each, but a computer failure ate my notes).
Yeast: Wyeast ...
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Mead is taking up space in my carboys. When can I bottle it?
So the mead I made six weeks ago did not taste great when I moved it into secondary. Plenty of solvent notes. I have big plans for lager season and want that secondary back. I'm planning on force ...
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Fruit Flies in Airlock. How can I Test if Mead is Okay?
In short After approximately 5.5 month my airlock full of vodka has lost 60% of its volume and now has trapped a couple dozen of fruit flies. Should I be concerned for my batch of Mead?
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Sulfur Smell from Fermentor
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20 lbs. Forest Honey
12 lbs. Blueberries
water to 6 gallons
5 grams of D-47
4 tsp. Fermaid K + DAP
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After the initial vigorous fermentation, I ...
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Why didn't my ABV reach the yeast's limits?
I fermented some 5 gallon mead from SG 1.146 to FG 1.058, but two calculators ([1], [2]) said the ABV was 11.7% - 11.9%. The yeast I used (Lalvin K1-V116 [3]) is rated up to 18% ("Alcohol tolerance up ...
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Fruit mead - VERY vigorous fermentation
I have made several batches of meads, using different yeasts, with the same recipe. I then picked the yeast that made the best mead (IMO) and made some fruit meads. I followed the same recipe, but ...
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How to Sterilize Bung and Hole while Maintaining a Strong Seal?
How do you sanitize and prepare a bung for stopping a carboy? While making sure that it will maintain a good seal and not POP off sometime later.
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I removed and sterilized my bung and ...
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