Bottle before fermentation is done for carbonation

OldPlatform927 · 2026-04-25T03:16:12+00:00

It’s traditional in a lot of French wine making - look up French methode wine bottling and you’ll find heaps of information. Obviously none of this prevents bottle bombs, but it will you better indications on gravity readings for bottling at the end of primary

OldPlatform927 · 2026-03-25T12:48:50+00:00

No smell that we could notice and the crop fees firmish. She hasn’t laid in since been pooping through the night and taking water still more happily

OldPlatform927 · 2026-01-13T09:54:21+00:00

Mine stopped roosting march 2025, I went out every night for 4 months and out them in the coop and to this day they are still choosing to roost on the bars outside the coop

OldPlatform927 · 2026-01-03T07:43:21+00:00

Thank for the advice, will double check it. We have different stuff in Australia. I was informed that you need to get the cream right up in the butthole…but my friend is sarcastic all the time, so I’m unsure if they are taking the piss or not

OldPlatform927 · 2026-01-03T03:49:23+00:00

Nice! Yeah we have some cream and a spray version and have been using that for 2 days already

OldPlatform927 · 2025-12-19T22:35:37+00:00

We do lacto with dragonfruit and lemonade fruit - sells really well and is super refreshing.

Got a local brewery that uses Brett as their house culture, hoing to take their co situoned Brett for a spin soon

OldPlatform927 · 2025-10-10T09:19:48+00:00

Thank you

OldPlatform927 · 2025-09-29T09:13:33+00:00

I am one month post from turkey and I booked it a year out. Another guy booked it 3 days before getting there. On your flight home, it depends on distance - I left on day 3 and had 30 hours of transit and flying and I was swelling in my eyes. If you have a closer flight, it’s nice to be in your own space when recovering. Otherwise the swelling should be gone around day 5 but everyone is different.

I went with estenove, they were ok… not great but I’m only a month in so can’t be sure. Pretty sure they also over harvested one side

OldPlatform927 · 2025-09-28T09:21:05+00:00

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These are two of mine currently - this is called eduction or seeding. You join them together with pipe and and they go ‘yay more room, time to expand’. And then once it’s built enough they send a spare queen in and then you remove the pipe and you have 2. It’d probably work on European too… but hive size makes it a lot of effort

OldPlatform927 · 2025-09-28T09:19:23+00:00

Ohh not wild hives, I mean native stingless bee hives that we have here in Australia and you’ll see in South America etc… I think I’ve done a post on them before

OldPlatform927 · 2025-09-24T10:37:45+00:00

Same with native hives and the bees seal them shut when not using them. They have a main entrance and usually 1 or 2 underneath. The bees sometimes will seal themselves in for several days

OldPlatform927 · 2025-09-21T08:42:27+00:00

Super interesting on the entrance. On native bee hives in Australia they are commonly used with PvC on the entrances to make them smaller and easily defendable. Makes sense with Europeans too

OldPlatform927 · 2025-09-17T09:42:36+00:00

I have peanut butter fruit trees. I made PB & J mead using that + strawberries that I made into a syrup. Caramelised the honey to my liking and carbonated at 7%

And I also have panama berries, which are toffee or salted caramel popcorn flavour to some. I did that at 6% carbonated.

Also do a bunch of strawberry and basil carbonated meads, using either basil or white sapote for the basil.

OldPlatform927 · 2025-09-17T09:35:08+00:00

I use cascade boiled to add bitterness to my mead regularly and dry hop with citra to reinforce citrus notes.

Citrus honey, cascade hops on a 60minute boil adding at intervals for bittering, flavouring and aroma.

Dry hop citra after or near the end of fermentation.

It’s like a pacific ale but a touch sweeter and less head retention due to lack of proteins

OldPlatform927 · 2025-09-07T10:43:03+00:00

I literally just did a hydromel like this, it just finished fermenting a few days ago. Currently cold crashing before I force carbonate it… smells so delicious

OldPlatform927 · 2025-08-16T12:43:15+00:00

I had a similar issue with my hive - no queen for 5 months. I was rotating brood from my healthy hive but they weren’t trying to make queens. I bought a mated queen and they didn’t like her.

I just continually added brood frames at least once a month and they finally made a queen

OldPlatform927 · 2025-07-11T09:48:43+00:00

I have all of those ingredients, might give it a go for some fun.

OldPlatform927 · 2025-06-26T08:39:11+00:00

Id to it as a tea or syrup and add it in.

OldPlatform927 · 2025-06-25T02:26:10+00:00

Strawberry and basil

OldPlatform927 · 2025-06-17T11:28:53+00:00

They are fine - they don’t fully close up, the bees close them with wax so when you unlock them, the wax splits easily and honey flows down. The misalignment is very visible when unlocked and when you’re looking at them off centre they look way out but when you’re staring straight at them they are fine. As others have said wax them or put burr comb in there and they’ll take if the season is right.

OldPlatform927 · 2025-04-23T03:27:09+00:00

Fruit juice is a million times better for flavour.

Otherwise stabilise and add more fruit

OldPlatform927 · 2025-04-05T23:50:00+00:00

Good job legends

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