Fermenting Vessels and Airlocks - Mead Making Basics

[@stedmanregester6926]

Glad to see you have your Audio sorted. I’m going your work now as a stepping off point, can’t wait for the results.

[@ArcaneAlchemistMead]

Thank you! It gets better as the series goes on.

[@gethinjones4427]

This question is probably a thick af thing to ask, but do you have to poke holes in the lid of the airlock. I’m just confused af how the air gets out of them. Don’t want to make a mead bomb. Thanks :)

[@MissouriFishingWarrior]

Does the style of airlocks matter? Like is there a huge difference between s shaped, 2 piece, and 3 piece?

[@islagkage15963]

you forgot to mention one of the advantages of doing primary in a bucket (atleast if it has a spigot) is that once stuff settles to the bottom it will generally be below where the mead is tapped from making seperation, significantly easier and less likely to cause problems as you're not sticking anything into the mead to decant it for secondary fermentation.

[@ArcaneAlchemistMead]

That's a great point. Not all buckets have spigots though, and you can't actually tell until you start tapping, sometimes there can be LOTS of sediment (i.e. melomels) and that can cause the sediment to be in the spigot. It's definitely an advantage, yeah! But it's got a few caveats, also I pre-write scripts and I want to keep the content under 5 minutes, so I had to cut some content, and that was, unfortunately, one thing. Thanks for saying here though as someone who reads the comments now knows!