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1 gal. JAOM variation 1 gal. Blackberry Bochet 186.5 + 2 = 188.5

Thanks for the replies :) I will decant/siphon to new jugs

A friend of mine bottled his mead some months ago and now all the corks are blowing everyday. The mead was bulk aging in a 20L bucket. He is not in the country and he asked me if i can do something so the mead dont go to waste. I was thinking to remove the remaining corks to let the gas out...

I got very drunk yesterday with my hopped brownsugar apple wine and today i only had a mild headache that was gone after a glass of kombucha. I dont get very bad hangovers with my brews :)

Racked mine today and added bentonite i didn't had at the start of fermentation S.G:1.013

I think the stove pot method is better and faster but for me the pressure cooker is better because I don't have a pot big enough to manage the volume of the burning hot honey, maybe I need to go shopping lol. The smell in mine almost faded away, it had a very nice honey smell in the first week...

Its delicious, I drink commercial beer all the time but never had hops in my hand (I never brewed beer and never drank homebrewed beer) so I didn't know how was the smell and taste of the hops, what I can tell is that for me its not tart at all and tastes very hooped (maybe because i still have...

You can, just in a difrent way. Cook it 1h and see how it is, if its not the color that you want cook it for another hour and so on.

Mine is like this: HIRES Here I also keep mine like this to maintain the temperature below 20ºC (Lalvin D-47 yeast) You could step feed your mead to obtain the sweetness you want, just keep adding honey and taking hydrometer readings to know when the yeast is killed by alcohol

With lime should be very good too :D. I think secue01 from youtube has made hoped vodka too and i belive he has a video about it. Mine is still very cloudy and i think it will not clear but it tastes great

I didnt had much sleep in the first night, hoping that mine didnt erupt like yours lol. Much darker, awesome color. I hope my next batch of bochet has a color like that, this batch is going to be red instead of black like i wanted.

yes, i just putted the jars inside the pan and added water to almost the top of the jars, not covering completely. I didnt cooked it enough time to make it really dark but i think it depends on the pressure cooker, WVMJ obtained a black honey within 2 hours of cooking and i only got that redish...

Bottled this yesterday, its awesome. I still have hops and probably Im going going to make some more this weekend :D

Its only fermenting since yesterday and the temperature of the cooking i can't tell you because it was cooked in a pressure cooker, for about 2 hours. I covered the jars of honey(closed) almost to the top with water and close the pressure cooker, kept it in a high flame until it starts to...

You can check it in my thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/blackberry-bochet-407695/