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Lherring, Duplin Cellars in Duplin county makes a muscadine wine. You might want to pick up a bottle. It seems to be readily available, even in regular grocery stores. Personally, I don't like it. I find it has a taste of diesel fuel and it's too sweet for my taste. Probably the easiest thing...

Probably just my taste buds but I've never made a mead with D47 where I enjoyed the finished product. Lot's of mead makers seem to like it though. All the Best, D. White

You could try backsweetening it with some Knudsens "Just Black Cherry" juice. They make a "Just tart Cherry" too. Aging overcomes a lot of problems. You might be surprised how it tastes in a year or even six months. All the Best, D.White

71B ferments cleaner and ages out faster. However, it'll produce off flavors if left on the lees very long. It will not age as well as D47. D47 likes it cool. It has very high nitrogen requirements so feeding it often is a good idea. It won't age out as fast as 71B but will be better in the...

I've never had anything like this before. I've made a lot of beer and mead. I'm just going to let it sit for a week or so and see what happens. In meads I've made, after a few days, the viscosity drops enough to prevent this level of foaming. Not this thing. All the Best, D. White

Figured this out. Any movement of the carboy causes it to start foaming. It's not an instant thing but develops over about thirty minutes. Moved it last night to another room. Went back about thirty minutes later and there's stuff in the airlock. Refit hose. All the Best, D. White

I didn't add anything before it started this it just started foaming out of the blue. I don't add anything to full carboys. A couple of carboys geysers broke me of that quick. It's settled down today. Didn't lose much out the blow-off tube. Thanks for the replies. All the Best, D. White

I've got a blow-off tube on it stuck in a jar of sulfite solution. Funny how this just suddenly started foaming up. I made a gallon of this. I took a quart and put it in the fridge to top off with after the initial foaming. Two days after starting the initial foaming had subsided so I put the...

It's been fermenting a week already. This just started today. Never had this happen with any variety of mead. Usually any foaming stops in the first 3 to 4 days. Gotta find a bigger container. All the Best, D. White

This was bubbling along fine three hours ago. Plenty of space in the neck. An hour later it's foaming with stuff blowing into the air-lock. Any ideas? 3 cans Welch's white grape raspberry concentrate. Corn sugar. Water to a gallon. Red Star Pasteur Red yeast. 1 tbsp. bentonite slurry. Been...

Right now: 2 gallons show mead in secondary 1 gallon Welch's white grape / raspberry in primary. 2.5 gallons in primary made with Alexanders Pinot Grigio concentrate with 2 cans Welch's concord concentrate plus corn sugar to 1.094. Wish I'd skipped the concord and only did 2 gallons...

Best way to ruin a hobby is to turn it into a business where you HAVE to make money. All the Best, D. White

Been brewing beer since 1989. Started doing mead 2003. Starting my first grape wine today with a can of Alexanders Pinot Noir concentrate. Going to do 2.5 gallons adding some white grape juice concentrate and dextrose. Want something a little more than medium bodied. All the Best, D. White