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If i add more fruit, yeast and sugar can i re make wine?
First off, it seems unlikely that you have alcohol-free wine regardless of how much sugar you added. Fruit juice alone has plenty of sugar to produce alcohol with a ferment -- perhaps not as much as ...
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My mead has a lower ABV than I hoped
there could be a few things that caused this. One could be that the yeast wasn't firing at 100%. It could have lacked nutrients so it wasn't able to ferment fully. There could have also been a ...
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Bad Batch after a brewing break of 20 years
Sorry to hear that, man. That really sucks. Truth is, we all have a bad batch and/or brewday now and then. It's just part of the hobby ;)
It's hard to tell from your post what specifically went wrong ...
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What % of potassium sorbate, and or potassium benzoate do you need to add to a liquid solution, mixed with powders to keep yeast/mold from growing?
0.5 tsp (1.7 g) Potassium Sorbate - treats 1 gallon mead, wine or fruit wine.
2.5 tsp (9.1 g) Potassium Sorbate - treats 5 gallons
I wouldn't use benzoate stabilising as tablets were withdrawn (e.g....
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Cider not fermenting I may have caused a problem
Really, the only way to be sure the yeast is/isn't doing anything is to get a hydrometer or refractometer and measure the must content over the course of a few days. If the gravity is dropping, you're ...
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Can I keep making mead from the same brew?
Short answer: Yes
Just rack the new batch over the old "fresh" cake. Best to rack on it asap.
No need to oxygenate, it's a full pitch yeast will go directly into feeding phase. The resulting ...
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Can I keep making mead from the same brew?
Yes, you can reuse the yeast, under some conditions.
If you use it quickly enough, there's nothing to worry about. I brew a batch of beer, let it ferment for 2 weeks, bottle it, and keep the leftover ...
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Can I keep making mead from the same brew?
Yeah absolutely! Just need to make sure you give a chance of staying alive, so feed it some nutrients and keep it at a temperature where it can thrive.
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If i add more fruit, yeast and sugar can i re make wine?
What did you use to get a reading of 0 alcohol?
The common method to find alcohol level is to compare how much sugar you started with vs how much is left after fermentation. Hydrometers and ...
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Bad Batch after a brewing break of 20 years
Gushers (the kind where you have to mop your beer off the ceiling after opening the bottle) can only have a few possible causes.
Bottling too early. You did not check the gravity before bottling in ...
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