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Mead is a fermented beverage that uses honey as the primary source of fermentable sugars.
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Is there anyway to overcome thef potassium sorbate in apple cider to make it ferment
You need to get that monster on a very active pitch of yeast. I'd recommend getting a couple packages of yeast going in a gallon of wort. Once its at its peak of activity I'd pitch it into this cide …
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Recipes for Banana Mead
I wonder if an you fermented a standard mead with a hefewiezen strain at the right temp if you force some of those banana esters out. … I don't think grape juice is an ingredient in standard mead making. …
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Banana Mead Yeast Suggestions
Why not shoot for a great traditional mead, aged with bananas? …
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How to correct Mead with too much citrus?
Probably the best thing to do now is to blend it against a neutral/standard mead to your tastes. You can't really fix these things once they are made, IMO. …
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How do you blend your meads/wines?
Ethanol is completely dissolved in the water component of mead and cider. Remember too that mead, cider, wine and beer are mostly water!
Just blend away. …
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Orange juice stain the brew bucket, or even worse?
An extended soak of your brew bucket with warm cleanser and/or bleach or baking soda will help clear up your bucket post this ferment. Its not something to worry about IMO. My old buckets have defin …
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Removing carbonation in mead
You could use a wine degasser like this.
I use something very similar for meads and wines before I go to that final racking for clarity. You will introduce a little oxygen, but if there is enough CO …
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Strange aftertaste in mead?
Mead is also a fairly poor nutrient substrate for yeast. … The very best mead makers preach about staggered nutrient additions while also degassing the CO2 from the must during the early part of fermentation. …
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When using a drill whip to degas, how do I ensure I will not aerate the wine/mead?
The oxidation in wine you get from vigorous degassing is minimal compared to beer, and those flavors are actually beneficial.
The cardboard or paper flavors that brewers fear from post fermentation o …
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What advantages do I gain by putting my mead into a secondary before bottling?
An advantage would be the addition of clarifiers and stabilizers in bulk, with the ability to rack off of the settled stuff prior to bottling.
When we make meads there are usually three to four racki …
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Why didn't my ABV reach the yeast's limits?
You might also want to try to degas the wine. Build up of soluble CO2 great slows yeast performance. Also if your sample wasn't adequately degassed and you used a hydrometer that will give an articia …
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How does one apply nutrient to a mead brew
The most common nutrients for mead making, DAP and Fermaid-K or -O, come in powder form. Adding a tsp of each to a 5-gallon batch of mead and mixing well is all it takes. … Occasional mixing at day 10 or 13 will help to degas the mead. Degassing the mead prevents dissolved CO2 from slowing the yeast. …
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Off smell in my mead
If you picked up vinyl smell from fresh tubing it won't leave the mead. It may fade in time, but along with some of the other good smells in the mead too, because it will take a long time. …
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First brew: dry hopped mead, probably stuck. How to best proceed?
Your title indicates a dry hopped mead. I'd recommend not boiling any hops to create iso-alphas. Just ferment out a great mead and then dry hop for hop aromatics. …
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