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Only mead I have going right now is JOAM im using to introduce new friends to mead. I do have a nice Irish Red Ale and a Mooseberry Porter in the bucket ATM. I'd be interested in doing a trade whenever y'all are. Next Mead is going in the bucket this week-end. Cinco de Mayo mead.

I find it drinkable after 2 weeks of conditioning to carbonate. It definitely gets more complex the longer you let it age, but the ginger flavor also blunts slightly as well, so you have to balance mellow, complex flavor vs. sharp ginger flavor.

The Costco near where I live has clover honey for $12 for 6 lbs or $50 for 25 lbs.

I'm still planning my recipie, but if you want to make a real root beer (well, as real as you can with no safrole) pick up the books Homemade Soda and Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop . Both are excellent reads on the subject and include a plethora of recipies. My current plan is to combine...

It's not really creamy, the vanilla just sort of provides a canvas for the lime and pineapple to play off of, which provide a citrusy counter-point for the Ginger and honey. Over all you get a complex and shockingly sharp flavor.

Thors Teeth! Now that's mead! If you're getting activity, you should be fine, just be prepared for a very long ageing period. Your recipe is going to turn out an extreamly sweet mead. Possibly too sweet to be drinkable. IIRC Redstar baking yeast doesn't handle alcohol all to well, so you're...

Methanol (bad alcohol) boils at 149° F. Ethanol (good alcohol) boils at 172° F. So if you look to go evaporating your methanol at 172° F, you'll wind up with NA cider. And wouldn't that be a bloody shame?

Rule 1 for mead making: NEVER ever ever ever ever ever ever boil your must. Now then. Can you tell us what ratio of honoey to water you used? If the gravity was very high you can shock the yeast and it will stall before even getting started. Also, not rehydrating dry yeast when making...

Why not use the ice cream stuff? Or for that matter why not use actual caramelized cream?

No llama. I ate it.

Redhammer Ginger Stout Ingredients Honey - 12 Lbs. 5 oz. (Divided 12 Lbs. and 5 oz.) Blackstrap Molassas Unsulphured - 1 bottle Rolled Oats - 1 Lb. Ginger Rhysome - 2 Lbs. (shredded) Pineapple Juice - 27 oz. Lime Juice - 20 oz. Pure Vanilla Bourbon - 1 Tbsp Boil the oats (in a grain bag) for 30...

I've been feeding mine on gingered oat wort blended with raw, unboiled honey.

Thanks for that Saramc. I think I'll break out my GBP and fix it up a nice sugar-wort shake and let it eat untill it can't eat any more.

Yeah I tried splitting them, at one point I had 3 batches of soda going at once. But no appreciable increase in GBP was noticed. I wonder if any of the scoby winds up in solution? Can I bottle carb soda using GBP?

How do you get them to form the polysacccaride clumps? I need more GBP and would rather not spend $15 on getting another batch.