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I've missed everyone and just wanted to drop in and say hi. My dad had a relapse with his cancer so it's taken a lot of time out of hobbies and I really had to step back from much of my blogging and posting elsewhere. So, I hope everyone's been great. I didn't get to compete yet this year...

It got a little more headspace than I usually allow (sitting at the "gallon" written mark vs higher up the neck) and I'm noticing a slight acetic finish now where there wasn't one previously. It wasn't clear and still running hot so I was just going to age until it was where I wanted. Had...

At what point do you pull out the big gun and do an ec-1118 drop with a stuck mead? I have 2 that aren't moving, yes do have some sporadic airlock activity but no gravity changes. They're at 1.1 and 1.060 respectively. Second one was fine until I pulled it off the oak so I think I could have...

Official spot for recipes, notes and brew pics for our Lactomel Project Brew. Again, we'll be kicking off 3/19 - 3/20 but anyone can absolutely jump in after that if they like! And hopefully you'll have a great guide on recipes and things to watch for from this thread. Why lactomel? It's...

Was curious if anyone would be interested and what style would be interesting and fun to go for. I love the solera brew project so thought I'd put this out there to also up our gallons for the year =) I'd say something not citrus.... I have so much citrus stuff going lol! Otherwise I'm...

Thought we could use a humor thread to laugh at silly crap we've pulled on a brew day. I had a great one yesterday that honestly I have no clue what the heck I did but it resulted in a shattered hydrometer (but at least I got my OG first lol) all over the kitchen. For the record... they...

Some questions if you don't mind. Absolute essential equipment? Things that are nice to have and/or speed up times, etc. ? Are all corkers created equal? Seen some very big differences in prices so was curious Things you wish you knew before you started corking? I'm looking at...

I have a beer hating husband I'd like to try to turn around. He will drink wine, whiskey and loves my mead (unless you count my metheglin that's hopped with tettnang and hallertau) so I figured I'd see if anyone had any thoughts on setting up a recipe for someone that's NOT a beer person...

I use sna but sg was way higher than usual (so thinking I really should have step fed instead of using my honey volume at once, oops) and I'm using d-47 so worried about keeping this one going. 1 gal batch, temperature was off so the + 0.02 adjustment for that has me sitting at 1.187 but...

Don't even ask me why I'm debating, but I am. Have a cyser clearing that's still running hot so it's going to be a while, solera project is doing it's thing and that orange mel (that I Hate but am letting it age to see if it improves or not) in 1 gallon batches right now. I have 3 empty...

I've stumped the jury here and apparently I can't stay neutral so figured I'd see what everyone thinks. I'm skirting the line calling it experimental so I've been told so here we go. Friends that (have) brewed and others that are working the google are back and forth. My Bochet got...

Happy New Year to all! Hoping it's starting off on a great note and with that, a lot of great meads!! Like the previous year, we will go by Brew date and not bottled date, so as long as yeast is pitched between Jan 1 and Dec 31, 2015 it counts In 2013: We Reached 1,156 Gallons In 2014...

We're sitting at 949 (unless I missed new posts) from the "How Many Gallons" thread so it had me curious. We've got exactly 21 days left to Jan 1st (at least in my neck of the woods) so it's already 20 days to go on the other side of the world! I won't be until I start bottling (which...

Troubleshooting this one is not going well. I'm pretty much out of ideas so hopefully someone's run into similar and can help! Cyser was started on the 7th in a 2gal fermenter pail with about 1 1/2 - 2 inches head space and gravity sitting at 1.165. After 18 hours zero airlock activity so...

I'd lurked a bit before joining in and figured it's past time to say hello to all! I'm new to brewing, started with meads and am moving into metheglin and cyser. We're anticipating a move so when that's done (or if we're caught here longer than expected) I'll be starting into beers as well...