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Hi guys, Just checked a show mead that I have had bulk ageing for a while. It's crystal clear but there seemed to be some White dots forming on the bottom. It looked to me the way mould does when it forms on food. I have put a picture but even just moving it a little Has disturbed it and...

Hi everyone, Put together a mead which contained some fruit (orange,kiwi,raisins) three months on and 80% of the fruit has dropped out but the raisins and some other orange peices are still floating. I'm In no rush for this but I'm not sure if leaving it on the old fruit and yeast will affect...

Hi there, Went on holiday and when came back an insect had died in my airlock. Could have been there between 1 and 7 days. Is this something to worry about? There is pretty much no active fermentation as the mead has been in there fir about 2 months and is close to dry. Thanks for your help guys

Hi guys, About five weeks ago I started my first mead(show mead) however at the time I only had access to poor quality supermarket honey. It has cleared nicely but I now have access to better wildflower honey and was wondering wether I should rack the poorer quality mead onto some morello...

Hi guys, Just wondering what the best thing to do is if you rack a couple of times regarding g some volume o the brew. I've seen some people keep some of the must in a bottle and top up with this. Is that a good idea? Thanks for your help

Hi everyone, Got some honey the other day and decided to throw together a random mead. I put and orange and two kiwis(peeled and chopped) and some raisins straight into the demijohn(Carboy). It's going well but I was wondering if I can keep the fruit in this for a long while or wether I should...

Hi everyone, Started brewing about a month ago and just wanted to say thanks To everyone for all the help and advice. I've never once seen any of the more experienced brewers being negative when asked what to them probably seems a bit stupid. So again thanks to everyone involved in this forum Brian

Hi there, I'm new to this but I was thinking of making a cider and using Tablet in place of some sugar to infuse the vanilla(ish) taste. Would this work? For those of you who don't know tablet is a Scottish confectionary and is almost all Sugar. Thabks

Hi guys, Put together my first mead 2 days ago, the initial gravity reading was 1.065 which from looking at other posts seems low. Will this be okay and how would I be eat to proceed(more honey or backsweeten etc.) I used 3 and a half pounds o honey for a one gallon batch. Any advice would be...

Hi there, I'm new at this so cheat with me please. I started making a strawberry wine (from fresh fruit) . For 7 days in the primary it fermented welland just before it put it into a glass secondary it cleared quite a bit. It has now been In the secondary for about 3 days and is producing 1...