ClawsMcPaws
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Hello everyone,
I just started my first ever fermentation of anything, a batch of mead. I'm doing this because while visiting Ontairo last summer I got to try it for the first time at an actual meadery, of the 6 I tried I fell in love with one in particular that they age for 2 1/2 years in decommissioned cognac barrels. If my mead turns out palatable or when it does get to that point in my brewing carrier could I just grab a nice quart bottle of cognac and add it during secondary. For context I'm mixing just honey, spring water and Mangrove Jack M05 mead yeast in a 6 gallon bucket for ease of mixing then transferring into a 5 gallon carboy for primary fermentation, after fermentation is done I'm going to transfer into my second glass carboy for a month and this is the stage where I was thinking it should be added if I was to do so. Any suggestions, thoughts or insight would be awesome and although I wanted to name the winery/meadery and product I acquired there I didn't know if that was against fourm rules (feel free to let me know that as well because I'd love to pump their tires on that one aspect)
Thank you all very much
I just started my first ever fermentation of anything, a batch of mead. I'm doing this because while visiting Ontairo last summer I got to try it for the first time at an actual meadery, of the 6 I tried I fell in love with one in particular that they age for 2 1/2 years in decommissioned cognac barrels. If my mead turns out palatable or when it does get to that point in my brewing carrier could I just grab a nice quart bottle of cognac and add it during secondary. For context I'm mixing just honey, spring water and Mangrove Jack M05 mead yeast in a 6 gallon bucket for ease of mixing then transferring into a 5 gallon carboy for primary fermentation, after fermentation is done I'm going to transfer into my second glass carboy for a month and this is the stage where I was thinking it should be added if I was to do so. Any suggestions, thoughts or insight would be awesome and although I wanted to name the winery/meadery and product I acquired there I didn't know if that was against fourm rules (feel free to let me know that as well because I'd love to pump their tires on that one aspect)
Thank you all very much