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My first mead in the secondary. Made from raw honey straight from the bee keeper.

I just tried some I made while racking it to secondary. It tasted like chardonnay to me but a bit sweeter.

My first mead ever. I racked it to the secondary sunday and it cleared over night. I didnt add anything to it. It simply cleared on its on. I used a pound of raw local honey and 2 cups of brown sugar with Champaign yeast EC1118. It fermented to 10% ABV. My question is after I racked it to the...

sounds like phenyl. It can happens when chlorine gets fermented in with your alcohol. it wont kill you. It just taste nasty to me.

Could be the honey. I knew that would make it a bit harsh but didnt realize it would do that....O well i'll let it age a while and see what happens

On a lighter note the cherry apple cider I made 8 weeks ago has carbonated and taste AMAZING

recipe 1 gallon apple juice (no preservatives) 1 cup light DME 16oz honey 1/4 teaspoon s04 SG 1.070 racked to secondary 14 days from start, and took gravity reading about 0.996 so its dry that is right at 10% ABV GOD its HOT! Like almost Vodka HOT. It smells Wonderful just like...

Awesome. Thanks!

Recipe 1 gallon apple juice (no preservatives) 1 cup light DME golden malt. 16oz of Honey 1/4 tsp s04 Starting gravity 1.070 average temp is 68-70 degrees F It peaked on about day 3 with steady bubbles from the airlock by day 7 about 1 bubble a minute. On day 14 you can still hear it fizzing...

to me apple juice fermented dry taste like white wine but way less harsh. very smooth.

interesting, im working on a 1 gallon batch of cider with 1 pound of honey and 1 cup DME melted in 1 cup of water. about the same SG as you 1.070 Im also using S-04 The malt made it have a head like beer. I tried it before I pitched the yeast and it taste awesome! Its fermenting now....I...

Great info here. and the finished product looks great!

Its probably going to taste sour using bread yeast like sour dough apple bread but from your picture it looks ok. Next time get a champaign yeast or brewers yeast Lavlin EC-1118 is only $0.94 on midwestbrew's sight Bread yeast makes things taste to yeasty in my opinion. Also you can get a...

I thought about this and might add the champaign yeast to the secondary. I thought of something else. I didnt add table sugar or anything I added Honey and Malt. IF it ferments dry it will be 10% However it may not go dry because perhaps S-04 wont eat all the sugar in the Honey or Malt. If it...

Thanks a lot for all your help on this.

Will doing this take away from the flavour the safale s-04 will leave? I hope not.

Krausen is basicly foam from the yeast doing its thing. What kind of yeast did you use? what all is in the recipe? One way to see if its infected is to smell it. If it smells like vinegar or vomit or sour dough then its probably infected. if it smells like wine, beer, or liquor then it should...

I was thinking about this...I came up with 0.1252369 teaspoon's im guessing about a pinch? LOL I have never added yeast at bottle time I imagine just add it when I rack it in the bottling bucket mix then bottle? Or do I need to wait a little time after mixing to bottle?

fermentation has started looks like if it fermints dry it will be exactly 10% ABV....anyone one know how I could bottle condition? if not I recogn I'll figure it out for you ******** :mug:

any help how to carbonate would be awesome....otherwise I might pitch and try again later....