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I'm a noob mead maker (this is batch #2 and batch #1 was 15 years ago.) I've mostly done beer & cider. I made a mead on Sunday, July 27, and it began bubbling by about 3pm that day. It's 15 days later and it's still bubbling. It's definitely slowed down. I'm only getting one bubble through...

I brewed a New Belgium 1554 clone. It tasted great at the first racking but odd at the second. Tonight, my first glass (and second, and third) out of the keg had a mild vinegar smell and taste. It's definitely not something I want to drink. But can I cook with it? Like it's a dark...

I made a gallon of hard cider from unpasteurized juice from a local orchard. I managed for forget about it for a month or so and then noticed that the airlock had run dry when I checked it. I refilled the airlock after another month the cider had changed colors to an odd olive greenish color...

I made a batch of Skeeter Pee that I thought was OK. Not great (maybe I had let my anticipation get the best of me), but OK. That was until SWMBO suggested sangria. In the first batch we added 1 cup of raspberries and 1 cup of blackberries to a half gallon of Skeeter Pee. It was great, but...

In my local grocery store I ran across a bottle of RW Knudsen's pomegranate juice (pure juice, pasteurized but no sulfites and such). I thought that would be pretty good in a cyser. In the past my meads have always been with actual fruit and it was put in the primary. But I read (here at...

I'm looking for some 5 liter jugs for fermenting cider & mead. I found these (below) but can't find anything out about the company and don't want to give out my credit card to an unknown. Does anyone know where I can get some 5 liter bottles like this...

Hi all, I was heavily into brewing back in the mid-90s (beer, mead, cider, and about anything I could find that I thought would ferment ... which lead to some epically bad drinks). Recently I dusted off the brewing equipment and have started up again. Yesterday I drove past a local orchard...