Recent content by ContinentalDrifter

On the forums here. I've read quite a bit of advice against boiling honey, for instance (maybe more about the nose than the taste, though). When people use fruits, they use fresh or frozen, and tend to stay away from dried, baked, etc. Personally I love caramelized apples, and would use them in...

How about frozen strawberry concentrate or even a can of the frozen Bacardi mixer (or another mixer type thing)? Kool-Aid just sounds dirty. There are also Mott's unfrozen cans of strawberry-kiwi concentrate, but I don't know if they come in plain strawberry. There's also strawberry extract...

Hey Tusch, I ordered this stuff from Amazon a few months ago, and it's vanilla *paste*. Basically just ground up vanilla bean scrapings, which I think is better that using extract but simpler than buying beans and scraping them. If it sounds like a good idea to you, might be a good way to...

Has anyone here ever put caramelized stuff in mead? Stuff that's been cooked isn't really supposed to make great mead, from everything I've read. I love baked apples, but I don't know whether the desirable mix of flavours that makes them tasty transfers into the mead, so I wouldn't even bother...

Call me silly for not figuring this out earlier, but I just found out that the bottle necks can fit in the slots on my top dishwasher rack (instead of over the pegs, because i can't slide the rack in that way), and they stay upside down during the entire cycle. Of course, I just moved into a...

Just did two bottles. One Dogfish Head - has matte paper labels, and they come off super easy, just have to scrub the adhesive residue a bit. The other was Hennepin, and the labels are much more commercial and glossy. Took a little longer but there was almost no residue after using the Goo-Gone...

Soak the bottle a bit and peel off the label as much as you can do easily. Then spray on a bit of Goo-Gone or similar adhesive remover. From there it's really simple, and if you run into any problems, just use a razor blade. You should be able to lightly scrub off any further residue and then...

Has anyone tried JAOM/MAOM with buckwheat honey? Also, on a different note, I'm thinking of making a batch that's a bit more summery and so I want to use ginger instead of cinnamon, cloves, etc. Any thoughts?

I'm a relative noob to homebrewing and meadmaking, and just working out the basics right now, but I wonder if someone can answer these two related questions: 1. Is there any flavor enhancement to be gained from using fruit in the primary fermenter? It is my understanding that fruit will...

Has anyone ordered that one? It's a good price but it looks like it is missing the part you need for corking. Can that part be added or is it included? On an unrelated note, this is my first post to the site, although I have been reading for a few months. I'm doing my best to learn the...