Recent content by meadroid

You can pour your wort onto 2 gallons worth of ice if you really want to speed up the cooling.

I'm thinking about this additive as well (in mead). Maybe roasted sesames? That would heighten the flavor while requiring less of the seed (and thus less fat).

I'm just getting started brewing. I started with an ad-hock batch of mead. We have bee hives so we have an excess of honey. I used the organic and some boiled and strained sour pie cherries (or the juice from the boiled cherries, rather... the cherries were picked recently off a long abandon...

I'm just getting started out with mead (raise our own bees so we have a lot of honey, though). I chucked together a batch on a whim using some sour cherry juice. I boiled the cherries and then melted the raw somewhat crystalized honey into them and then added the water, heated it to a sterile...