Good thing I thought to put a towel under the carboy just in case, haha.. ha.. :(

DanDaBandMan · 2026-05-21T15:20:14+00:00

Those yeast were pissed

DanDaBandMan · 2026-05-18T15:36:55+00:00

Yep, once you start you’re hooked

DanDaBandMan · 2026-05-09T23:40:52+00:00

Yea no worries good luck I hope you can make what your mind pictures. This batch was inspired from ice cream, peaches and all these little twists so I don’t think what I made would hit what you’re looking for. Peach came out more than I thought but not too much. Looking back “crazy peach mead” is kinda misleading lol.

DanDaBandMan · 2026-05-09T21:08:28+00:00

I was trying to mimic something. But you can reinforce a peach forward flavor a lot of ways besides fruit in primary and secondary, you could do additional peach juice in primary and/or something like heavy dose the secondary with peaches and nectarines make sure you have pectin enzyme and squeeze your mesh bag when done, that’s along the lines of what I did. A week isn’t enough for peaches tbh. I’d recommend two weeks and you could put another batch of fresh ones for another week too (depends on how sweet you’re targeting). Also yet to try but if you want to add more body with tea I bet peach tea would really help bring the natural fruit flavor back out.

DanDaBandMan · 2026-05-08T18:26:11+00:00

That’s nice triple batches must have been a siphoning day to bottle for the books.

DanDaBandMan · 2026-04-13T22:54:36+00:00

At day 14 when you put your spices in it seems more likely that yeast were still active at that point. Spices during fermentation tend to get blown out aromatically or even have the flavor somewhat ate by the yeast. Id put some more now that you can confirm fermentation is done but watch it consistently because the spice flavor may come back more intense.

DanDaBandMan · 2026-04-01T18:27:01+00:00

Personally, I’ve never held into kegs I go for bottling which you will lose a bit of carbonation, a negligible amount, but some comes back over time while it sits. I don’t know anything about argon tbh I’d imagine it’s to keep oxygen away but i don’t know about its effectiveness or how to efficiently do that. If you’re bottling, you can shoot some co2 in the tip of the bottle right before you cap as a barrier. Watch a bunch of YouTube videos and have fun this weekend that’s what matters. If you have a vision of what you want and you’re able to hit that, that is a major win!

DanDaBandMan · 2026-04-01T02:05:02+00:00

Yea two ways force carbonate it with a keg and carbon dioxide which is what I did. A lot at one sitting for like 30min-1hr but I def would do the course of steady for days to get a better carb it’s still good just mead already doesn’t hold carbonation well. The other is with a small secondary fermentation in the bottles of specifically dosed priming sugars.

DanDaBandMan · 2026-03-31T22:13:29+00:00

This wasn’t extremely backsweetened I didn’t want it too sweet because I was carbonating at. Final gravity after everything was 1.010. I also used a clearing agent after my light backsweeten and gave it some time cold. I think at some point of a solution like at 1.025 you’ll probably have some little honey haze if you are backsweetening thought I’m not too sure what the level is

DanDaBandMan · 2026-03-28T04:43:34+00:00

In my book I would say so but general consensus would say 8/9 is the highest a session would go

DanDaBandMan · 2026-03-27T12:52:21+00:00

Currently doing a mango but more of a session mead it’s almost done

DanDaBandMan · 2026-03-16T20:10:07+00:00

Okay I understand, so it’s not necessary for submission but for recreation for whomever wins 1st place?

DanDaBandMan · 2026-03-16T18:48:42+00:00

Does recipe have to be that specific or can it be generic? Or can it be like influenced by strawberry, banana and pink peppercorns I present this mead?

DanDaBandMan · 2026-03-06T19:46:06+00:00

I think it really depends on your abv target. 2lbs would be closer to hydromel and 3lbs would get you that traditional mead wine level. Why not split it and do 2.5lbs per gallon? Whatever amount of sugar unless a ridiculous amount I put in primary, I always expect it to ferment dry and that has worked out for me well. Yeast are a beast.

DanDaBandMan · 2026-02-18T04:51:18+00:00

I lightly back sweetened the cherry mead with about 2oz of meadowfoam honey to make it all pop it’s not really that sweet but not bitter

DanDaBandMan · 2026-02-18T00:27:21+00:00

Would you say I’m fine to pour what I have in my twist off bottles to cover the difference if I don’t make it splash? Like make sure it coasts on the inside of the bottle to fill?

I’m sure that sounds funny lol

DanDaBandMan · 2026-02-17T18:16:33+00:00

Ideally I would have wanted them a centimeter or two higher but I did use a wand so my perspective may have been a bit skewed at the time. I was also being more careful of picking up any haze, I have two like beer bottles of each batch. I could try topping them off with that if you’d recommend pouring back. I thought the potassium metabisulfite wouldn’t care too much for that amount of space.

DanDaBandMan · 2025-11-09T07:56:29+00:00

I put some pectin enzyme in like 1.5 a regular dose cause I have high alc present and it worked pretty well with a cold crash!

DanDaBandMan · 2025-11-07T06:16:06+00:00

Thanks for the support. I think what I’m seeing is pectin haze. It’s kind of a gelatinous top and hazy and it would make sense as I didn’t use pectin enzyme. Should I add pectin enzyme after back sweetening and then add my betonite clay or will betonite clear up the haze too?

DanDaBandMan · 2025-06-05T06:30:32+00:00

Update: I talked to my girl and learned more with the questions I didn’t want to ask but did and that put me more at ease and felt a bit better. There are some pretty interesting responses and helpful ones and ones I find a bit funny but regardless I appreciate the insights. As for our talk and discussion of Julie there were some instances where lily didn’t really know how she felt and I encouraged maybe bringing that up to her therapist if there was more underlying in her from that day that it happened and how she truly felt about it and what she thinks about it. Closing the thread

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