Lab setup - test pictures












I've seen so much bad advice given to first-time mead makers that I feel like I should offer a primer that is more respectful, open, and encouraging.
In the pursuit of the perfect sweet mead, the "bottle bomb" is the ultimate horror story, except maybe broken glass carboys.
To bridge the gap between a lucky batch and a repeatable masterpiece, we must disentangle three terms that are often used interchangeably but represent distinct physical realities in the brewhouse: Accuracy, Precision, and Consistency.
This is a minor revision and edit of the article published in 2017.