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Yeah I put an airlock on it and planned on letting it age for a while I think I will try the oak thing because it's undrinkable right now

I gave it a taste as I racked it right now and it was super bitter almost tasted like eggs and tequila

So I racked it into a new carboy after it sat for a month what do I do with the dead yeast and fruit do I just pour it in the trash?

Yeah I'm gonna rack it this weekend and let it sit so fingers crossed

I used oranges and I don't know of it's considered early it's 3 1/2 weeks in as far as the temperature I live in Phoenix Arizona my ac struggles just to keep it at 74 degrees and there's always a cake at the bottom of dead yeast about a inch thick so do I stir it trying to avoid the yeast?

I got a starter kit it's my first batch I followed the instructions to the letter used everything they gave me

So I just took a hydrometer reading and it's at 1.000 and I smelt it and it has a faint fart smell to it I was making a orange blossom mead did all my sanitizing and everything it's been fermenting for 3 weeks now is it supposed to smell like that?

This is so exciting I can't help but watch it lol

Noted it looks a little better today the yeast is collecting at the bottom and the mead is a little cloudy with a top layer a little clear

So add a couple raisins?

I usually get a bottle of mead on the weekends from a wine store on my way home from work Friday but that's all a processed mead from a store and I know I like it a bit on the sweeter end but that tends to get woxsive buying from the store lol , maybe I'll switch up to 5gal later on once I get...

If I end up backsweeting do I have to neutralize it? After waiting a month or so or should it be good?

I swirled it a lot and vigorously some slight co2 started to bubble through the airlock for about 39 secs then stopped again not much foam or bubbles

Thanks for the help really appreciate it can't wait to try more recipes

I have no idea how to use a hydrometer I'm gonna have to do a little more research while that sits

So the fruit goes into the second carboy as well?

I don't have anymore yeast or nutrients just what came in the starter pack and it's already in there

Need to do what again add more yeast, nutrients or shake it? I have a second carboy already for the aging i just don't know what do do in its current state

Hello so I put about 2-2.5 pounds of orange. Blossom honey In a gallon carboy and filled it up added the yeast and the nutrients and put orange slices in it, it overflowed a little after the first 24 hrs so I poured just a little out and it bubbled and fermented just fine for a while , then Day...