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I would like to buy some medium boxes, prefer 8 frame already dipped. I can't find any suppliers doing a simple net search or thumbing thru bee mags. I'd also like bottom boards and...

Hello old friends,
I have a lot of SHB, couple of my hives have gone down from them this year. I am tempted to go without bees for a year to knock down the population. I would like to know what...

Great work. Looking at your site you seem like you would fit right in with NAFEX, the North American Fruit Explorers.

Following a recipe that another has provided can help with success. But, if aiming for a sweet mead, there is some important science to follow. A sweet mead is sweet because the yeast gives out and...

What was your original specific gravity?
What is the alcohol tolerance of EC-1118?
Why campden and at what point in time was it added relative to the yeast?

I've made a great ginger mead but had to add ginger 3 times to get enough flavor.
Base was shredded and boiled lightly for primary.
Secondary had ginger powder added.
At bottling I added a candied...

Strands of yeast?

Most all of my wines and meads have sediment from a little further fermentation and settling. I think one could filter these out by chemical or physical means, the way...

Neil,
Check your private messages.

Those darn Jehovah's witnesses, they keep coming to the door. Here is a pamphlet for your wife. They keep coming to talk to my wife...she does not say stay away very well. Well today it was very...

I have never looked into conversion factors. I'd suggest using a HYDROMETER and add honey to the desired potential alcohol level.
If you do not understand this, slow down until you do, you will be...

I'd try a homebrew club. I have rarely had a commercial mead that tasted as good as the worst homemade.

THere are many issues with this whole thing but I bet your next mead will be better! Not that this one will be bad, but mistakes can teach us.

Can you publish the original recipe? Not everyone...

I question your need to top off the carboy. If one aims to top off a carboy it is a task best prepared for from the start with extra must/wort/solution/juice. I do not prepare for this and have...

I have no advice to make a drinkable Christmas mead at this point. Sampling is fine but meads that I make like to age. Remember the old ads for "we will sell no wine before its time"?

I have not seen any mead making kits. There are a lot of wine kits. A homebrew shop nearest you is worth walking through. In general I think that the higher price makes a better quality wine (if...

I think there are a couple key points to make here:

FIRST and foremost, before considering bottling make sure it is done fermenting. Measurements with a hydrometer tell one this. Alternately one...

I've never heard of leaving any brewing recipe open to air.

Nutrients add helpful nitrogen that might not be present otherwise.

I do not know of any meads ready for consumption in a few weeks. ...

The more you enter a carboy the more you can introduce to it.

My thought was that the problem was likely from the apples. I do not recall mention as to how they were handled at the start of...

Get an auto-siphon. When I use one it takes most of the good stuff and litttle of the bad stuff. Some of my bottles end up with a touch of sediment but by the time you reach the end of a mead your...

Oxygen is essential for fermentation, for the yeast to grow: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC152411/

Once a beverage has fermented then it is bad: ...

Acebird, making mead is easy. If you do not ferment well without nutrients you can always add them later. But you will then be waiting longer.
So, if you want to make a straight mead and drink it...

Sweetness is not really a factor of initial gravity readings. It is a factor of gravity reading upon completion of fermentation which relates to the yeast choice. My read of that yeast (14%...

I've reached a point in my life where I try not to buy cheap products any longer. For exampe, rather than go to a big box hardware store to buy a weedeater, I went to a small shop, bought quality,...

BIG MEAD THERE!

Another way to tell if it is done is to look at the yeast alcohol tolerance compared to the current level. Also, if your reading is near 1.000 you can have greater confidence it...

Bump. I've received one sample, grateful for it, but it is not unique enough in aroma or flavor. If anyone has a unique strong flavored or aromatic honey, please let me know. It does not have to...