Recent content by jmorriso

Yes, 1.03 I'm shooting for a sweet cider. That's what I put it in the fridge as, I'm thinking by the time it stops it will be around 1.025 which was my target FG. The last one I did I let it go all the way to completion and it took a while for it to be drinkable, but after about 6 months it...

I just made a simple 5 gal batch of cider (4.5 gal apple juice, 2 lbs honey, 1lbs dextrose). It started at 1.078 and I cold crashed it at just under 1.03. My question is after it clears in the fridge and I rack it to the keg, will the yeast slurry be revive-able? I'd like to make some skeeter...

Just started up a 5 gallon batch of this last night. Only change is I threw in a cinnamon stick to the juice we heated on the stove and then dropped it in the fermenter with the honey/juice/molasses mixture. It was fermenting steadily within a couple hours. Here is what we used: -24 oz honey...

I watched a beer making episode of "Good Eats" with Alton Brown from the Food Network. He had it figured where he could use one bag of ice plus one bottle of water in the primary and pour the wart over it. Ice, just like water, is one pound per pint, so a 7lbs bag of ice plus a bottle of water...

There are some great videos on bee keeping on Youtube. Just do a search for "bee keeping for beginners". 11 part series that goes through almost everything. I'm about to get some bees from a friend who had an acquaintance beekeeper pass away.

Moped Ale "Fun to ride, but you won't want to be seen on it"

There's actually 3 different recipes that I'm looking at. 2 from Jack Keller's site (winemaking: requested recipe (Honeysuckle Wines)) call for 6 cups of petals only and you simmer them and steep for 3 hours along with some citrus zest. The one I posted above (Recipe -- Honeysuckle Wine)...

Here's my second go at it with new font and Illuminated J: My Brews and Wines will go under my old nickname "Stumpwater", so Stump Water Wines and Stump Water Brewery. Here's a label I made for them:

No, I guess I could, but I'm afraid that would be too "busy" I actually had an orange tree and some cinnamon sticks on this for the JOAM, but that was too cluttered for my liking.

My first label, got bored last night and came up with this:

I've got honey suckle everywhere around my house this year. The smell is awesome! I found this recipe for honeysuckle wine and would like to convert it to a honeysuckle mead recipe. I was thinking about just substituting 3lbs of clover honey for the sugar that it calls for? I'd like to do a...

For those of you who age in a glass carboy do use an airlock throughout the aging process? If so is it filled with vodka or something that won't grow nasties?

Carboy's are cheap, just bite the bullet and buy one. If you're looking for a really cheap carboy, my local natural foods store sells spring water in a 5 gallon glass jug (carboy). Its a $7 deposit for the carboy and $12 for the water. I went in the other day and all they had was empties so I...

why not make a home made cream soda brew and add butterscotch schnapps to it before you carb it?

Google while searching for hard lemonade recipe. Love the site! Best homebrew resource around. If you need info then its either here or someone here knows where to find it.