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Don't quite know how I got into brewing, been into it for about 3 years now with the exception of taking a year off due to the Army sending me to Iraq for a yearlong vacation.
Past setup included a 5-gallon plastic fermenter that I bought with a brew your own beer kit, made a pretty good beer, no bombs and good AC. Did a little homework and found out that plastic can be problematic with sanitation so I discontinued the use of my 5-gallon fermenter and have been going with 1-gallon glass jugs for the past few months.
Currently, I am brewing 2 gallons of Sack mead, put them into secondary about a week or so ago and gravity is reading just above 8% -
I have two recipes I will be trying out here very soon:
1. Pyment with all natural comb honey from local stock
2. Acerglyn using the same comb honey as the first and also using blueberry and a few other ingredients -
Sweet Apple Cider
Sack Mead
Ginger Honey Mead
Blueberry Honey Maple Syrup Mead
Pear Mead - Male
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Posted in thread: Issues with a honey mead I brewed recently... on 06-01-2012 at 04:17 AM
I agree no sugar, more honey. What was your SG at bottling? I believe that sweeter meads have
better mouthfeel and yield a better honey flavor. I have not yet tasted a dry mead that I was
real fond of...Posted in thread: Issues with a honey mead I brewed recently... on 05-30-2012 at 01:42 AM
Do you think it would be too late to add more honey to the finished product, or would it just
be best to try again with another batch?Posted in thread: Issues with a honey mead I brewed recently... on 05-30-2012 at 01:35 AM
I did a 5 gallon batch of honey mead about 10 months ago that finished fermenting, spent a few
months conditioning in the carboy then finally moved into bottles (no carbonating). The mead
itself came ...Posted in thread: Blueberry Mead- Questions on 05-30-2012 at 01:19 AM
I did a blueberry honey mead about 8 months ago and i discovered that the simpler the recipe
the better it came out, instead of fruit i used about a quart or two of blueberry juice that i
got from an ...Posted in thread: Need help with a raspberry cider batch on 01-07-2012 at 02:20 AM
I started a 5 gallon batch of raspberry apple cider a little over a month ago. Took a taste
today and found that it is extremely tart. I believe that the raspberry puree I used may have
been too much,...Posted in thread: Finished Fermentation, Now What? on 01-05-2012 at 11:26 PM
I have a case or two of flip-top bottles that should do the trick, I wasn't sure if I could
just put the finished cider straight into the bottles or not, or if I should put something in
there. Thanks ...Posted in thread: Finished Fermentation, Now What? on 01-04-2012 at 11:52 PM
The videos were quite informative however, I'm looking to bottle a non-carbonated cider, is
there a preferred way that people normally go about this that can be explained to me in simple
terms?Posted in thread: Finished Fermentation, Now What? on 01-04-2012 at 01:30 AM
I have a 5gallon batch of raspberry apple cider that just finished fermenting, I want to bottle
it without carbonating it but am a little confused as to how this is done.Can someone please
explain the...Posted in thread: How did you find us? on 10-09-2011 at 04:23 PM
I just wanted to say thank you to the men and women like you serving to protect our freedoms.
You rock :rockin: I appreciate what you do and what you sacrifice for America to be free. Best
of luck in ...Posted in thread: How did you find us? on 10-07-2011 at 04:02 AM
Same here.Yeah, the little bit of down time I had needed to be filled with learning something,
and though I had a grasp on the basics of homebrewing, (being raised in the South) I had no
idea of exact...
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