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Did final racking last night. Going to finally bottle this in a month. :)

BTW I'll post a photo of this before bottling -- just tried now, but as it is night time the amber colour doesn't show up very nicely under flash.

Wow. Somehow my carboys just sat for the almost 2 years, waiting for me to "get around to" the final racking. Last night my wife threatened to dump everything if I didn't get my ass in gear. Somehow this stuff didn't turn rancid! It is quite fantastic, in fact!!! I did a final racking from...

Hi, I have about 7 gallons of gorgeous looking mead almost ready for the bottle. Hard to believe I started this in early May of 2008! I was planning on bottling it in summer of this year (well, actually, in spring of this year to coincide with the birth of my daughter, but I never got...

Wow, that label is awesome and the stout sounds like it is too. This could be sold commercially! :-D

Very nice ideas, indeed. Thanks! :)

Hi, I made over 6 gallons of mead using a blend of different honeys, which is now ready for bottling. In honour of my first(?) daughter's birth this year, I have decided to call it "Anika's Blend". Since I will end up with so many bottles, maybe one of them will still be left when she...

I had a 6 gallon batch start fermenting again after *one year* in the carboy. I wanted to ensure the batch was thoroughly degassed, so I started stirring it which led to a further month of fermentation. I would never start bottle aging after just 3 months in a carboy.

I'm in Tokyo, but I have some land in Ishigaki. Was planning on retiring to that region, but it doesn't look like it is likely to happen. :( You should go back for a visit, btw...every island, including Kohama, is amazing (not sure about Hateruma -- haven't been there yet).

I haven't gotten around to bottling yet! So, it looks *identical* to the photos I posted back in February. I had planned on calling this, "Anika's Blend" and bottling it around the time of my first daughter's birth (February 26) but I guess I missed that. I need to get it done before June 20...

As requested, here is a photo of my mead in final bulk aging.

Shows the mead I have on bulk aging. Details here: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/exceptional-mead-1st-attempt-100373/

Hi all, it's been a few months since I last posted. Work is busy and life goes on, and not really much I can do while I have 7 gallons under bulk aging. ;) Anyway, after a rather disappointing 6 gallon peach wine that ended up very tasty but "strangely" sparkly and somewhat sedimentary in the...

Well? How did they taste??

I have so many unlabelled bottles it isn't even funny. I use things like rubber bands twisted around a bottle meaning sweet, no rubber band meaning dry, etc. :) How do you get your labels made? Can you just buy blanks, load them into your inkjet and easily print them out? What kind of...

I'm still a little green behind the ears, but, I strongly suspect the colouring is from suspended tannins and other particulates. Give your wine plenty of time to clear; you may be pleasantly surprised when the off-colours decide to fade away.

I'm doing my first mead now. 7 imperial gallons with extra jugs going for top-up purposes. Will probably get at least 40 bottles out of this batch alone. :D

Do you have a hydrometer? If the OG is fairly high you might want something potent like EC-1118 to ferment all that sugar into alcohol. I hope waiting 10 days for airborne yeasts to get started wasn't a vector for airborne bacteria to get a start as well. :( I would get that cultivated...

Hi, I googled it, and yes, Lambanog appears to be coconut toddy! It is also called Coconut Arrack. Looks like a lot of locals distill it into something even more potent, but I think it would be tasty enough as a wine (and not quite as illegal :p ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrack I've...

I went to Viti Levu and stayed at the Outrigger on the Gold Coast near Sigatoka. We also spent a week on Mana Island. Absolutely fantastic! Coconut toddy is actually fermented sap from the flower of the coconut palm. From a google search: "IN the manufacture of coconut toddy the sap is...