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How to Bottle Mead - Quick Guide

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A Quick Guide to bottling mead. Some tips and hints. I show you how I bottle and cork a gallon of mead into 4 wine bottles.
Lots more mead stuff on my website and check my playlists for 20 more mead making videos.

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  • Well, about a year later and I now have 17 bottles of some fairly decent mead. Thx for the videos and advice, they were a great help throughout the whole process. :)

    Next project: Better than fairly decent mead.

  • @MrRubenRibnik Grats on the mead and grats on having the patience to wait for it!

  • In your experience, is it normal for fining agents to re-activate the fermentation process somewhat?

  • @MrRubenRibnik no, not tupically. But the act of bottling or racking stirs things up and that can be the cause.

  • Questions:

    Alcohol content is directly related to the sugar content?

    The higher amount of sugars in the initial fermenting process the higher Alcohol content?

    If I wanted to make a stronger mead...would adding a corn-starch be a Kosher way to raise the alcohol content...could i use cane sugar...or would the higher honey to water ratio be the best way?

  • Alcohol content is more directly related to the type of yeast you use. Each type of yeast has a tolerance for alcohol. Once that tolerance is reached the yeast will die off and stop the ferment. So, if you want ot achieve a certain alcohol percentage you will need to choose an appropriate yeast.

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  • @robot797 Really. Ive never used one of those hand corkers(Portuguse floor corker here)but they look like they do a shitty job.  Doesnt even get the cork all the way in and it looks like alot of effort. Imagin doing 5 gallons like that. No thanks lol

  • how many bottles broke when you were corking them?

  • @maglinjosvinn or when it gets clear

    w8 til it is clear

  • And does that make it a dry mead or will it still be sweet once its done?

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