I have refreshed the water in the airlock a few times but it has never gone dry.
I took hints from a recipe for "The devils aphrodisiac" mead where if I remember correctly his brew was in the primary for a very long time extracting goodies out of chocolate and refining in the secondary for...
So this was my first attempt at a mead. I made two batches. First batches was in a plastic gallon milk jug. It was a basic JAOM recipe loaded towards the high side of sweet. I used some soft mandarin oranges left over Christmas cut into quarters, raisins for nutrient and bread yeast. I added so...