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With the high acid content of this recipe a starter usually helps. Use a little of the mixture at a time. Start it with like 50-50 water and your mix. Gradually add more of the lemonade mixture. This will help the yeast acclimate to the acid content.

Mine cleared up quite nicely, but I cheated. I used Super Kleer finings. I agree with you, it does taste better at room temp rather then cold.

I always put my fermenter in the tub in the spare bathroom for at least the first week to avoid any explosions.

This was my first mead. I used like 12-15 cuties instead of a regular orange. I squeezed them first, set that aside and kept the spent oranges. Melted 12.5 lbs of honey in the pot with some water then added the juice and all the squeezed oranges with peels. Added 3 cinnamon stix and 4...

WooHoo!!! I'm in!!

I used blueberries, at first it didn't taste the greatest. At first it was pretty bitter, I was expecting some sweetness from the blueberries. It has been in the bottle now 4 months and is finally tasting pretty good. I don't have the patience to wait that long for a beer, so probably won't...

I will say this...they are a new store so starting out slow. Look at it this way, the more homebrew shops in town is better for us. Will bring more variety and with more competition could possible bring prices down.

Well mine has been bottled for about 2 weeks now. Still as sweet as when it was bottled. It just totally stalled out and couldn't get it to go any further after 3 months of fermenting. Almost syrupy, but if you pour it over ice and let the ice melt a bit it is pretty good. Scarry good...

Well I finally gave up on mine. It has been going since March, OG of 1.134 and now sitting at 1.054, which should give an abv around 10.5%. I used EC1118 which I am pretty sure has a much higher alcohol tolerance, but I have repitched several times and just can't get it going. I was hoping to...

Closing in on 2 months of fermenting this stuff. Only down to 1.054. Summer is gonna come and go before this stuff is ready to drink.

Bottled half of my batch as regular wheat, and the other half I put onto 3# blueberries for a week. Just racked it off the blueberries today and cold crashing it now. Tasted it, didn't have much blueberry taste. I added an oz of blueberry extract, hopefully that will bring the blueberry taste...

Jonas, I'm not a big fan of really hoppy beers and with your schedule(around 35 ibu) it is closing in on pale ale ibu strength. I wanted to stay under 30. Maybe I'll up it a bit from where I'm at, but probably not much.

Would like to hear any thoughts or suggestions about this recipe. First one, pretty basic recipe, so please be kind....lol 3.3# Amber LME 3.0# Amber DME 1.0# Caramel 80L 0.5# Biscuit 0.5# Carapils 1.0 oz Cascade 60min 0.5 oz Cascade 20min 0.5 oz Cascade 5 min Nottingham Yeast

Thanks guys....I appreciate the responses. I am working on an amber right now, but I will give one of these a shot on my next brew day.

New brew shop opening in Sioux Falls today. Barrels and Bottles ETC. Grand opening today, gonna go check it out. It's located on 41st and Western in the strip mall by PepperJax.