Recent content by hammersteps

Thanks Jorb, Bray, Skeletor. I'll post more as it goes along. Tried to pull up more info on the yeast (floc etc.) but no info to be found AOY. Smells great. The guys on my ODA are expecting it to be done like yesterday.....hard break it to them that it's got at least two months till its at...

So, I'm in the near/middle east on deployment for a while, and I ran across some Yemeni Blood Honey, whatever that means. I wish I would have gotten some more information on it, or some pics (sorry everyone), but I'm pretty excited. I made sort of a JOAM out of it (yeah....wish I would have...

I also almost never use pectic enzyme but for this I would use loveofrose's step feeding sched for the BOMM and if you just have to use it, 1.5-2.5 tsp. You are pretty low on fruit and normally it's 1/10tsp per lb of fruit, but you have the apple juice in there....prolly 2tsp.

Haha...just looked at this again. I'm much more sober now :drunk: it's 1.25 gal water for the boil and top up after adding near freezing apple juice. I use a 3gal fermenter and top up after primary.

The latest recipe is this: 3 gal batch. 3 gal boil. 3 gal primo brand water with added NaHCO3. 1.5 gal JW Knudsen apple juice 4lb honey unfiltered, raw 1lb 12oz golden light dme .5oz Centennial (30) 1oz fuggles (15) 1oz fuggles (0) Belle saison yeast It's good man. I really...

I'm kind of on the fence. I love my keg system. I built it for about $250US for everything. I took my time and procured equipment as cheap as possible off craigslist and built it all myself. I'm happy with the results, and love the time it takes. I brew a lot of beer though. Big beers...

I guessed as much but wasn't sure. Sounds awesome as usual. It's on the list as soon as my mead carboy is open. Using it for your funky hibiscus/ginger thing listed in another thread. That mother is awesome. Sending it out for x-mas/yule presents this year after a few months maturing. It's...

Yo Bray, What yeast did you go with for this?

Good luck all you guys rolling on this. I completed my 27 days and forgot about the thread. I'm still keeping below my 14 beers per week goal after my 30 days. Keep up the hard work guys....it was pretty cool to have saved about 110 beers up during my time off. Gave me a good head start...

Yooper....I must say that I have followed three of your recipes (welches, dead guy, and lemonade) with fantastic results, and I thank you very much for your time and effort put into helping those of us with less experience. Also to the other contributors to this list....I'm sure I'll have the...

Brewed this last night. Mashed a little high at 154....meh. Hit the gravity on the nose though.

the most recent version came out fantastic. Getting better every time. Next one will be a little less bittering hops, and add some at flameout instead.

Awesome article. I am currently step feeding your sorrel mead and it is dropping quickly....looks and smells fantastic. I'm also submitting my formal request for the high gravity mead article.

Alright mazers.....I know this is an old thread, and probably beat to death. I understand that VB is not a terribly well received mead by a lot of people, but my wife and I are some of the people in the other camp. We love it! Regularly we go to the bottle shop down the road and get a glass...

I'm still going.....just not posting much. Day ten. 14 to go.