gonzoflick

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Primary: Fullers ESB Clone
Secondary: Hierra Sevada Pale Ale
Bottled: NOTHING
On tap: NOTHING

wild

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No. Saturday will be my first mead and I figured to go with a simple traditional semi-sweet.

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On Tap -

1. 3 year old Oak Aged Bourbon Porter
2. Irish Red Rye
3. Robust Porter
4. Russian Imperial Stout
5. Mirror Pond Clone dry hopped with Citra
6. Mirror Pond Clone dry hopped with Centennial

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Secondary -

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mgayer

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I make one very close. Anise sounds interesting! I love the Cysers with the spices. They are even better in the winter when warmed and with lots of friends! Wasail!

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Lost Knight Cellers
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In the Carboy: 1 gal Elder Flower Wine
1 gal test Cider

Bottle aging: Mead
Apple Wine (15% abv)
Strawberry Wine
Winter Beer

Travis KilPatrick

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that sounds really good. I may have to try that when I eventually delve into the world of mead.

flowerysong

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I've never made it, but it looks like a good recipe. I like to use whole spices rather than ground, but that's personal preference.

One note: if you do decide to stabilize and back-sweeten, use potassium metabisulphite in addition to the potassium sorbate, as both together works better than either by itself.

Cheesefood

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Tell me more about back-sweetening. My blueberry mel (using sweet yeast) ended up very bitter. Probably too many tannins from the blueberry skins (which I blended, then dumped into the primary), and a FG below 1.000

I would like to bring a honey flavor back to the mead.

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you can always try bread yeast to make sure you get a good sweetness to your meads. I always use bread yeast for any sweet mead I'm doing works very well.

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In the Works: Common room ESB--(AG) Belgian Wit---(EXT)

Meadery: Grape apple mesquite cyser

On Tap: Common Room E.S.B.-----Belgin Wit

malkore

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Safale-s33 is the old Edme strain, and I used it a lot to get sweet meads. it'll hit 12% ABV, so if you go with 3lbs honey/gallon of must, it should come out sweet, but plenty strong.

I even had it come out sparkling once, but lots of sediment in the bottle...not really planned...I wasn't as 'wise' about brewing back then.

still it tasted like heaven...still have a few bottles left.

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Primary: English Mild
On tap: Pale Ale, Lancelot's Wheat, English Brown Ale, Steam Beer, HoovNuts IPA
Bottled: MOAM, Braggot, Raspberry Melomel, Merlot, Apfelwein, Pyment, Sweet mead, Cabernet
Gal in 2009: 27, Gal in 2010: 34, Gal in 2011: 13, Gal in 2012: 10