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My long-suffering cherry mead seems to have finally stopped fermenting, so I racked it to a glass jug to finish out. Again, I didn't have a hydrometer when I started this, but a fair guesstimate based on ingredients should put it at an original gravity of 1.115. It stalled out a couple of weeks ago at around 1.040 and I added a bunch of dead bread yeast (as a threat) to get fermentation going again and that worked to a point... it stopped again at 1.031, so as a final effort I added some 18% tolerance yeast (the original was 14%) and in continued bubbling languidly for another week or so. It based on movement in the airlock (or lack thereof) it seems to have finally settled on 1.024, which puts it at ~12.5% ABV. It may yet drop a few more points of gravity while I wait for it to clear. Either way, I'll take it.

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