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I have 8 gallons of maple wine (mead made with maple syrup instead of honey) that I pitched months ago and have had in the basement and just reracked today. three gallons of it had a bunch of blueberries added to it, and five gallons was pretty much plain. I used yeast nutrient in both: "Crosby...

My buddy had a pear tree with these tiny, hard nasty pears that make your mouth pucker beyond belief. As we were gathering a bunch of apples at the time to make cider, I decided to get half a bushel of pears and try pear cider. As expected, the pear cider was just as gross as the pears, bitter...

I just bottled (in mason jars) my first batch of mead after about four months of it being in the gallon jug with the airlock. The airlock had stopped bubbling (to my knowledge) so I thought everything was done and ready to be thrown in a bottle. I just went and checked on the mead, and it had...

I found a trove of my Father's bottled hard cider made about twenty years ago in the corner of a cellar. The bottles were frozen to the dirt floor as the building is not heated, and hasn't been for 10 years. After poking one of the bottles with a stick to make sure it wouldn't explode, I brought...