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Thanks for your reply. I am really striving for a very flavorful blackberry, most mead recipes strive for a balance between fruit and honey. I think the honey will add a little more complexity but honey flavor it is not what I am looking for. I have several gallons of extra honey and thought...

thank you Winemaker81

After reading and re-reading an old post "critique/inputs for blackberry wine" by Vernsgal and dated 5/9/2013 I have put together this proposed all fruit blackberry mead. The original post was for a wine, does anyone see a problem changing the sugar source to honey? If so I will probably just...

a beginners question. I just purchased this kit and it should be here in a few days. I have several 5 gallon carboys, and several 3 gallons, I just checked the one larger carboy I have and it holds 6.5+ gallons. When I rack this to secondary would you recommend using a 5 gal plus a 1 gallon...

Lots in SE Missouri. Have been bad last few years and better this year than last. I keep bees so insecticides are out. Have been using diatomaceous earth with some success. I have read that they travel several miles so have not tried milky spore.. Do you think controlling grubs will affect...

Is this correct? Do you continue to stir primary and introduce oxygen until SG drops to 1.000? Or do you stop at 1/3 sugar break then continue to step 4 when fermentation is complete? I want to try this and suspect the latter but directions are confusing.

khristyjeff, not sure about your plant. My ground cherry plants shave a dull green leaf with a velvet like texture. That looks shiny, reminds me of pigweed, of course I could be wrong

Dawg, have you ever used the colomafrozen lemon concentrate in SP?

Noobie questions. If you ferment your DB to 9.5% - 10% alcohol then add, say 2 lbs/gal of fruit in the secondary, are you not diluting your ABV by nearly 20-25%? Even supposing the fruit sg is 1.040 and fermentation starts again (does it do this?) and goes to completion won't it still...

any idea what the OG or FG was? Planted some last year and liked them. Used most to make cobblers but this year I planted more and would like to make wine/mead

Thanks guys, right or wrong I added 3g Fermaid O yesterday evening and this morning it was going good. Degased a couple of times to manage the fruit cap, hopefully I won’t introduce to much oxygen. Not planning on any additional nutrients, but will see how things progress. in the future I...

Thank you for your reply. How would you calculate nutrient requirements? The two gallons of traditional mead was finished fermenting, so would you calculate based on the one gallon of fruit? I assumed there would be enough nitrogen/nutrient in the fruit to finish. After mixingi have 3...

I fermented 3 gallons of a traditional, OG 1.092, FG 1.004, ABV 11.5% and used RC212. I mixed 8 lbs of strawberries and 2 lbs of bananas, and enough honey to make SG 1.088, this amounted to over 1 gallon volume, I also added K meta and pectinase (12+ hours apart). 36 hours later I then...

I would use the 1:5 dilution. I would guess that the 1:10 you use is for non-porous inorganic surfaces. If your boxes are wood they probably have at least a moderate amount of organic debris, (propolis/wax), you would probably need a higher concentration. If you apply/dry/air out I don't see...

Thank you both for responding. G259 as I stated, wasn't real worried just curious, I'm learning that you are right, most of my problems have been due to impatience. Rice_guy That makes sense. I keep bees therefore have all the honey I need and until three days ago have not fermented with...

I am certainly new to fermenting but have completed a few (8-10) meads with modest results. I have a question about the final gravity, none of my meads have ever gone below 1.000 and they usually stop short of that. I currently am fermenting a traditional, started 3/23, OG was 1.092, I used...

Thanks everyone.

Hi there, new member but have been following this forum for a while. I am interested in making a wine or more likely a mead with elderberries. In researching I notice that one particular gentleman's name comes up often, but not in the last few years. does anyone know what happened to...