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Hello, Right now I have 4 batches, each one is a 1 gallon session mead batch with different honeys, same amount of water, 1gr. of Lalvin EC1118 from same pack in each and pitch of fermaid O in each. They all had same starting gravity of 1.040 and are week in now. Yet, one of the batches seems...

My plan was to let it finish and then back sweeten it, never tried back sweetening before, this is maybe my 6-7th batch of mead ever.

Yes, I definitely understand importance of reading gravity, I'm still a rookie in this world but I would guess that reading tool is going to be my next step :)

I've tasted it a few times, it's becoming pretty strong but it's still not cleared a tiny bit, you can definitely tell it's not gonna be done so fast. I am just worried about keeping it for too long in primary I guess? Never used this much honey on 5 gallons, and it tastes awesome so don't want...

So I started my traditional mead on 12th of August. I'm using Lalvin EC-1118 5 gallons of water and 15 pounds of honey. My primary is on for 4 weeks now and it barely slowed down, still a lot of activity. Unfortunately I don't have hidrometer to read gravity. My question is should I leave it...