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Sounds awesome! My wife loves hibiscus tea. I'll have to try this! Thanks for the recipe.

Arktos Meadery out of Grand Rapids, MI has a fantastic cyser. Great article. Thanks for sharing.

Okay. Thanks guys.

Has anyone bought sorbated cider to backsweeten with. I noticed at Aldi I can get a gallon of cider for three bucks but it has sorbate, so no good for fermenting with. But could I use it for backsweetening?

I like to use cheese cloth to cover my buckets during primary. You don't have to worry about contamination because as the yeast eats through the sugar it releases CO2 which the puts a nice cap in the headspace of your bucket. The cloth is to keep things like fruit flies out. Once in secondary...

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/mead-recipe-of-the-week-super-berry-melomel

It's pretty much all I use. Maybe a little golden rod in the fall. It's all up to the bees for me. What they produce is what I use. I don't want to go out and buy honey when I don't have to.

Yeah when I make a batch that is big like that I try to start a bit lower and add honey as the yeast is working. Like on day two add a bit, and day four, and so on. Also probably what knocked you on your ass is CO2. It happens to me when I open my fermentation chamber sometimes. Makes me cough...

Using TOSNA I can have meads with 71b tasting perfect in less than 3 months.

5 gallons of blueberry mead 735

Yeah that's kinda what I was thinking. Thanks for the reply.

Perfect. Thanks! Also welcome to the forums :)

Do you happen to have a build thread for yours? I like the look of it a lot.

I'm sure you could easily incorporate Malfet's bottle washer into the scrub master. Should be fairly simple.

I used to live in Boise/Nampa area in my early twenties. Some of my best memories are of that place. Welcome to the forum!

I'd use the two gallon for lower gravity beer and the four gallon for higher gravity brews. I think biab is the way to go. This winter I'm going to start doing one gallon batches on the stove with a three gallon with biab. I currently do 3.5 gallon batches outside with a 7.5 gallon kettle and...

If I was to do this in actual five gallon whiskey barrels, would it be too oaky do you think? My wife agreed to get me a five gallon barrel for Christmas this year, and then I'll buy another at each new racking until I have three. I'm just worried about too much oak or too much whiskey.

I do three gallon batches in five gallon buckets. But only for primary. If I'm doing anything that needs a secondary, I secondary in a three gallon carboy. Once the majority of fermentation is done, you want as little headspace as possible.

Wow. Just wow.

How heavy do you figure it'll be? I dig the design and might copy it, but I want to be able to lift the cart onto my deck or into the back of my truck by myself.