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Way back when I got into this hobby. (About a year ago). I wanted to make nothing but Meads. But since then I have gotten hooked on beers. So back to the start. I want to make a perfect Mead or at least one that doesn't taste like jet fuel and battery acid mixed together. So here goes. Can...

So my Braggot was sitting on the counter on Friday it was done bubbling on Thursday. So I figured I would bottle it on Friday. Well I didn't get around to it. Then comes gigantic Blizzard on Saturday. So I spent all day Saturday shoveling. Last night before I went to work I looked at the...

Ok my girlfriend is hooked on Woodchuck. Well actually not hooked but she will drink this over others. So the question does anyone have a recipe that will give me a close resemblance of a Woodchuck Cider.

So I bottled one batch of a braggot today. I realized at the end that when I was cleaning everything before hand I'm not entirely sure that I rinsed out the raking tube and hose or even put it in the sanitizer. I might have just primed the line with the solution of Oxy Clean and just started...

I have a cherry apple cider cooking away right now. The question I have is if I have add a sweetner would this work and is there enough sodium benzate in the grenadine or do I have to add campden tablets as well. Recipe is 3 cans Old Orchard Cherry Apple Concentrate, 4 tbs Lactose...

So I wanted to make my second Braggot over the weekend. 2 lbs honey, 1.5 lbs DME, .5 gallons water at a boil to mix the DME and Honey, 1 gallon cold water, American Ale yeast. All went fine until I put it in the 2 gallon pale. Actually it was still good at that point. I put the lid on...

How much fermentalble material is in a vanilla bean? I put one vanilla bean in the secondary of one of my batches and I noticed today that the yeasties are going crazy on the vanilla bean parts.

What yeast should I use? Wine or Ale? If I use Ale yeast the Attenuation level will leave behind a rather sweet beverage. Plus what do I have to do to bottle condition this with the high FG? Basically looking for a yeast that will do an attenuation level right around 80%.

Looking for a one gallon Braggot recipe. I want to try a Braggot but I'm having a tough time getting a ball park figure for fermentables for a one gallon recipe. Would one pound of Honey and one pound of DME work? Or should I go lower. Looking for ABV around 6ish and to be able to bottle...

Let me know what everyone thinks about this experiment. 1 Gallon Batch 3lbs Walmart Clover Honey 4 teabags of Earl Grey Tea 1 Teaspoon of Yeast Nutrient 1 pack of Montrachet Yeast Hydrate yeast in dish of warm water. Bring about a quart of water to boil place teabags in and step...

Ok first mead ever in the 2 gallon fermenting pail. 3 lbs (Walmart Clover) Honey Vest from 2 Oranges Juice from 2 Oranges 2 Cinnamon Sticks 2 Cloves 1 pack of Montrachet Yeast Mixed the Honey, Vest, Juice, Cloves in the pail. After I got the honey disolved I added the Yeast and put...

Does anyone use these instead of wine corks? The lady I was talking to at the home brew shop said these work fine. I haven't heard anyone say anything about these.

So before I took up the task of brewing and aging a mead for five years. I decided to find some at my local bottle shop. I found to my surprise about six or seven different types from local Minnesota wineries. So I picked up a bottle of semi sweet mead that was blended with a wild plum...

My wife went went to Ireland for work about a month ago. And ever since she came back she was talking about this Apple Beer that she had at the Pub one night. I was wondering if it was a Cyser. She says it didn't have all that much foam in the glass. She says it was delicious whatever it...