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If cyser refers to a honey cider or apple mead/melomel, what is the term used to describe a mead fermented with pear juice / perry fermented with honey? Is it just called a pear melomel or is there a more specific name for it? Although I can't get my hands on perry pears I can get my hands on...

After breaking my previous hydrometer when it rolled onto the floor in the night I had to get a new one. Problem is that the readings on this new hydrometer were uncharacteristically high than what I was used to (I was following some fairly straight forward mead recipe that gave me a...

Started a mead yesterday, pitched with a harvested yeast cake, 24 hours later no sign of fermentation so I went to re-pitch with some bread yeast. Took the covering off the bucket, turned my back for a moment to get the yeast from the drawer, when I returned there was a fruit fly floating in...

Last year I bought some used gallon jugs from gumtree because they were cheap. As can be expected, a lot of them had soiled interiors. The labels suggested they had last been used in the early 1990s and mid 1980s. I managed to get some of them clean on the inside and put them to use. For the...

Today I racked some of 2014's buckwheat honey mead into bottles, getting four bottles plus some dregs. Something went wrong in the corking process with two of the bottles and to my displeasure I noticed some small pieces of cork floating around in there. The bottles with the cork crumbs in the...

I used Vigo Cider Yeast in the last batch of cider I made. The gravity was quite high, I think, although I didn't have my handy measuring test jug thing at hand to do a proper hydrometer reading. If I remember correctly, it had a potential alcohol of around 15% (whatever specific gravity that...

Hello there, I've been reading this forum for a while so thought it was about time I signed up. I began home-brewing in 2013, at the age of 29, and have made a variety of wine-like drinks from allotment produce (marrows) and hedgerow fruits (blackberries and elderberries). I borrowed a...