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I'm just killing some time at work today, and I was thinking about racking my strawberry melomel off the strawberries next week sometime. That's when I got to thinking about how I'm going to get those strawberries out of the glass carboy when I'm done. Obviously they had to go into the carboy...

I've got a 3 gallon batch made with 10 lbs of Clover Honey and wine yeast, started on 5/15/09. I stepped the nutrient additions, per Hightest's FAQ. This was supposed to be secondaried with fresh picked strawberries but due to a late frost up north here, strawberries from the farm I go to...

Okay, first 3 gallons of cider are going into bottles this weekend, so that means the next batch needs to get started. For the first batch I used 2lbs of honey plus apple juice to make 3 gallons. This time around I'm looking to use Light DME instead of the honey. I'm hoping for just apple...

While racking my Mead last night I realized I never started a thread, with the recipe and statistics. Since this was my first Mead I decided to just do a 1 gal experimental batch. I choose Orange Blossom Honey, since that's my personal favorite in tea or on a biscuit. Recipe: 3lbs Orange...

A couple weeks from now we'll be picking strawberries for jam and to freeze for pie. Since the fruit is in season, I'm looking to start a strawberry mead as well. It will be a 1 gal batch. I could go with 3 lbs of either wildflower or clover honey, since I've got ready access to either...

So here's the situation: Last fall I got about a bushel of pears from a neighbor. We didn't know what else to do with them so we skinned, quartered, and seeded. Then we put in quart jars, with a tsp of ascorbic acid, and 6 drops of a liquid artificial sweetener, topped up with boiling water...

As I read a lot of threads, I'm noticing that a lot of people are doing some 1 gal experimental recipes. That inspired me to do a 1 gal mead, and I've got plans for a 1 gal wild fermentation of a local cider. So my question is what is the best technique I should use for racking these small...

While tromping around town trying to locate someone that carried apple juice, or any other juice, in a 1 gallon glass jug. I wanted to make some mead but I wanted to keep the batches small to experiment. I'd finally given up and went to where I normally buy my homebrew supplies to buy a new 1...

I'm looking to experiment with making a little mead. I've done a couple beers, and I've got a cider working right now, so with that experience and all the info I've seen here I'm pretty confident on getting a mead working. I can get several different varieties of honey locally, so I'd like to...

I figured it would be better to start a new thread instead of adding this to my other thread about ciders. I found this recipe on line: Looks fairly straight forward to me. My only questions would be on the amount of honey. This seems like a lot of honey. So should I go with the recipe...

So I've brewed a couple batches of beer, and I'd like to try my hand at a little wine and cider. Wine I feel okay with because my uncle's done it for years. Cider will be a new adventure, but I've found some easy recipes and I just wanted to clear up a few things before jumping in. 1) the...

If you've never heard of or been to Erie, PA the title of this thread is highly ironic. At any rate, I've been homebrewing for about 2 years now. I'm in the middle of my 3rd batch, after some time off. The 2nd batch had some major issues resulting in slow fermentation, and then burst...

First, let me say it only took a week of lurking to decide I needed to jump into this forum. I've checked out a bunch of other sites, and this forum has impressed me. I'm on my 3rd batch of beer. First was the simple ale kit that came with the homebrewer's kit I purchased. Not bad, not...