water

This may seem a bit odd, but I was in Trader Joe's today and saw bottles of "artisan glacier water" from Norway. It got me thinking about what effect the water used in mead making has on the final flavor profile, since pretty much everyone focuses on the honey flavor profile. So if I were to...

My husband and I are making pear wine for the first time. We are making 6 gallons and the recipe calls for 4-6 pounds per gallon. We added the fruit to a 7.9 gallon primary fermenter, but then only had room for about 1/2 the amount of water that was called for by the recipe. It said 3 1/4...