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I have purchased Bee nucs, captured a bee swarm and re-hived a wild bee hive into my yard. Now this year I tried two bee packages. Here I am installing them. I made one too many noises befitting a middle school cheer leader than I would like to admit... Link to facebook video

Hello all I found myself completely out of JOAM and very low on my franken JAOM that is a blend of JOAM, lemon mead and orange blossom mead. So I decided to whip up a new batch of JOAM. But I have made several batches of traditional JOAM so I have recently over the past year or so have this...

Hello all! I have not been active for a while but getting back into some brewing. I have tried Cysers a few times and have not been as happy with them as I think I should have. My very first one had apples cut into 1/8th and got a bad infection so was ruined. My next several batches used...

Hello everyone! Today I started my first crushed honey mead from my bees I started raising this year. A bit of detail on the honey is shown in this thread: first honey harvest thread I had drained all the coarse filtered honey as good as it would let me out of my crushing bucket. Then...

Good day to everyone! Today is an exciting day. I am a technically 2nd year bee keeper but year one was a wild swarm that did not make it so 1st year successfull bee keeper or "beek". My bees have done so well. I have at minimum 3 more weeks of time for bees to harvest and possibly more in...

Hello everyone! I noticed packed away an old experiment of mine from long ago. It is a cucumber mead made with bread yeast and a little mint. I had the worst experience with it and when I taste tested it while still cloudy I gaged something serious. The original thread detailing it can be...

The other night I made a dark bochet and it's caremel/burnt marshmallow goodness filled the home. At 3 am and I am fast asleep SWMBO came home from work and had to wake me from my slumber and asked. "Did you get a cat?" Confused and half asleep I said no but why? She said "it smells...

Hello all! I am embarking on a long term project for the fun of it. I am doing a large 6 foot by 30 foot garden this year and will be planting many things but the most anticipated will be my blue berry bushes. I have "two year plants" of pink lemonade blue berries, Hardy blue blueberries and...

Hello all I do not always wax my bottles but I do for special occasions and when I am bored. A couple weeks ago my wife and I attended a wedding and as a gift I provided a 2012 Ginger Mead that I thought turned out really well. To make it fancier I waxed the bottle top and added a nice label...

Hello all! A couple weeks ago I started a small 4 - 6 month project for making several 1 gallon young meads and will be running a tasting party to try and get many people's impressions on the meads. I wanted to post the progress and results here for everyone to read. Here is where it is...

This has not happened to me for a long time so I thought I would share. I am making a 3 gallon batch of my simple Welch's wine and today has been a couple days since I pitched yeast. Fermentation was rolling strong but there was no real foam and such on top. I figured it was calmed down enough...

Hahaha As with most of North America in general we here in Oklahoma are getting record low temps. I have had all sorts of things to worry about over the last few days and just a second ago I realized... I have a 5 gallon carboy with some 1+ year old ginger mead in it out in the shed! I have...

Hello all! It is high time I got my next serious 5 gallon batch started. I was in the mood for a nice red melomel so here is what I came up with: 5 gallons 10lb orange blossom honey 1lb red and purple hibiscus flowers (Rose of Sharon hibiscus to be more exact from my own trees) 3.3lb...

Haha A while back someone posted about doing rediculous wines and I decided on a couple but the most promising was the 1 liter marshmallow wine I made. I took nearly no notes so most of this is from memory. I took a whole bag of marshmallows and at first tried to boil some water and melt them...

Hello all I loved my last JAOM I made and am sad that I don't have any more. I decided to throw together a two gallon batch of JAOM but made two changes to the recipe. Recipe is as follows: 2 oranges quartered and plopped in. 7lb local wild flower honey Two hand fills of raisins 2tsp...

I am racking and stabilizing a couple of my long term meads today and found that I am short on small quick drinking mead/wines/cider. So I thought I would use some leftovers and make a small 1.5L batch that is a low ABV something that I can get to in the next 30 days. First after racking my...

Hello everyone A long while back I saw this in the store: I thought it made a ready cider fermenter. All that would be needed is pennies worth of ingredients and airlock. I was shopping this weekend and since this was just going to cost me $4.00 to try this I gave it a shot. I shook...

Here is a one gallon tester of something I have wanted to try for a while now. I like Strawberries and have really wanted to do a mead with it and I have been reading about Jelly wines turning out really well so I thought I would mix that up. So I picked out some Strawberry Jam that had no...

Hello everyone To continue the never ending search for knowledge into the history of brewing & also to fill my lust for making the simple thing extremely complicated I am here to try and replicate my own Jiuqu or Chinese dried yeast balls. ***Warning*** ***In doing this I am dealing with...

Yesterday I mixed up a new batch of mead to try my hand at making a braggot again. This one was inspired by my father and what he likes so I can get him to try some of my home brew. I also want to give it a cool name but am out of ideas. Let me know what you think. Light Bochet Braggot 1.5 lb...