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Can I add it anytime?

Made basic mead for the first time. Simple enough and tastes nice. Got three bottles left sitting in the shed to mature a bit more. Also made a gallon of raspberry and vanilla mead. Similar recipe but added a jar of quality raspberry conserve and two vanilla pods. It's on its secondary and has...

Yeah I use a hydrometer.

Don't know what a fractometer is.

It was cheap honey from lidl. Just racked it off but some of the **** still got through. I'll do it again when it settles. It's reading at 10.5° so I know it's brewed.

Out of interest. Should secondary be kept warm or cool?

I'll do it tonight. Thanks.

Smells like mead. Slight yeasty odour to it.

Just a month into primary fermentation of my second batch of mead. The fermentation seems to have slowed and there is a thick spongy presence floating on top. I'm guessing the fermentation has slowed naturally anyway but this stuff. Has it spoiled??

I've used a youngs apple cider and a wilkos own pear. I'm just found a wilkos strawberry and lime. I've siphoned off into another bucket. So should I add the sugar now or wait until about to bottle? Sorry btw. I'm a complete novice. But I'm determined to crack it.

So if I rack to a secondary. Would I keep it warm or cool?

Because there is a lot of sediment in the bottles and I thought it might help reduce it.

Not a review. But is kit related. I like using kits. I gives me an abundance of cider in a short time but I have an issue. Sediment. In the instructions it says to ferment once in a bucket/barrel then siphon into bottles with half teaspoon of sugar then basically let it mature for a couple of...

thanx everyone. non of this is mentioned in the instructions

hi, im on my second batch of young's ubrew cider. it says it takes about 7 days to brew or when it starts to clear. only problem is it actually takes more like 3 weeks and even then i don't think it's right. i bottle it. add a teaspoon of sugar and leave it for another three days. but then i...