Recent content by SWFLHOMEBREW

Just bottled this. Its been almost 3 months and it finished out at.994 (10.4%) . Decided not to carbonate it or back sweeten, so its really dry, but I like it! It tastes like a dry white wine with a little flavor coming through. You can smell a light lemon scent, and it cleared completly. I...

That's awesome man!! Great job!!

This is my first mead ever, and from my research it looks like mead takes a while to be drinkable, so I was going to go with a 3 month schedule on this one since the ABV is only around 9%. I was planning on trying it sometime in December, and will post back here when I do!!

Awesome!!

I see it's been a while for a post here but figured I'd contribute....pitched some rehydrated Notty yesterday into a 1.053 American IPA, and it was bubbling within 6 hours and went friggin crazy at about 12.....it's been 24 hours and it is only bubbling about 2-3 times a minute now...wow...first...

I used the Home Brew extract & it tastes fine to me....but I haven't tried any other either though......

this stuff is good!!! the work peeps liked it as well!! think I'm gonna have to make a 5 of it!! You wouldn't even know you were drinking alcohol, and just 1 bottle at 7.2% had me feelin' pretty good!!! :)

as it ferments out the yeast "eat" the sugar and therefore when it's done fermenting it won't be anywhere as sweet as it is now. Just give it some time. I have a 5 gallon batch going right now that will be in the primary fermenter for about a month before I transfer to the secondary. And you're...

Adding more juice wont help with the sweetness. How long has it been fermenting, it shouldnt be done yet at 1060. If it has stopped you could always pitch more yeast??

Just bottled my 1G batch from my tap. I used HOMEBREW by Rainbow Flavors Inc.. It didnt actually say extract on it, just soda pop base. Got it at my only local store. I have noticed some Walmarts in my area (5 in town) have rootbeer extract/flavoring, may try some of that. On to the good...

Oh man this stuff has my fermenting freezer smelling all kinds of good!!!

kegging this today.....FG 1.024.....around 7.2% !!

Started a gallon last night with raspberry lemonade concentrate and used safale-04 ale yeast (it's what I had on hand!). Just curious if anyone has carbonated this and how that was?

gonna have to try this!!

Hey guys.....first post!! I am currently making a 1 gallon of this but upped the brown sugar to 5 oz & lactose to 4 1/2 oz. Fermented out and stabilizing right now!! Will let you know how it is when I keg in about a week!! My OG was 1.073