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Hey guys, Mere curiosity :D I regularly buy Caballo de Oro's Cabernet Sauvignon wine. It's a cheap chilean wine and a good one, IMHO. Surprisingly, I opened a bottle yesterday and was overwhelmed by a clove smell (like smelling clove extract) and taste. What can this be? I read that it can...

Hey guys, I just made a 1-gallon batch of a pyment made purely of grape juice and honey with a packet of k1v-1116 and a fair dose of nutrient and energizer added at innoculation. My mistake was that it ended up being a very acidic must (pH = 2.8), the boys got stressed and started producing...

Hey guys, I already have some meads under my belt and I decided to brew my first beer. Using DME, I ended up with a post-boil volume of 1 gallon and SG of 1.046. Fine, cooled it down in an ice bath and prepared my US-05 for the job. Here, I screwed up. First, I used standard rehydration...

Hey guys, I just had a 1-gallon batch of a pyment made purely of grape juice and honey with a packet of k1v-1116 and a fair dose of nutrient and energizer added at innoculation. My mistake was that it ended up being a very acidic must (pH = 2.8), the boys got stressed and started producing...

Hey guys, sorry about the title, but that's the only way I can describe how it tastes. So, the whole story: I began this batch on 03/25/2013 and it was made of: Water + Honey to give an OG of 1.110 (final volume of 35 liters) A big handful of raisins 1 packet of rehydrated 71B-1122 I...

Well, guess it had to happen anytime now... I made some Joe's Quick Grape Mead, stabilized, backsweetened it and bottled. Yesterday, I heard a grenade and well, you know the drill: cleaning everything, swearing and licking the broken glass to see if it tasted good. Can anyone help me detect...

Hey guys, I have some meads aging but have never made a dry one... So I've been thinking: What do the experts recommend as a first dry mead for me? Melomel? Traditional? I'm tempted to do a ginger batch, what ya all say? Thanks!

On 02/14 I started a 1g batch of JAOM and followed the quantities exactly. Unfortunately, my hydrometer cracked so I wasn't able to measure the OG. Fermentation went on very healthy and strong... So, yesterday, 02/23 I measured it with my new hydrometer and it indicated 1.006 (it still shows...