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I have been experimenting with a one gallon batch of Nettles & Ginger wine, when it came time to rack it off the lees, the ginger taste wasn't as strong as I'd like. What I did was to thinly shave about 5 oz fresh ginger root(I probably used about 13oz total, I really like ginger) and boiled...

The idea that popped into my head for a thanksgiving mead was to make a modified JAOM with dried cranberries.

Are there any wineries near you? I've got a friend who's turned an unused pasture into a small vineyard, as a way to make a little extra money to pay off the property taxes. They found a local winery to buy their grapes(minus what they need for their own use), the winery helped them pick...

Yeah, that was a concern I had when I made this, being store bought fruit is usually picked when not fully ripe and tends to only look really ripe when gets to the store. So I went through the berries and picked out only the ones the looked plump, ripe, and blemish free. I don't really have...

Anybody ever try making Lappish Hag's Love Potion ? Basically it's just a simply country wine of blueberries, sugar and water; left in a glass bottle outside to be fermented by the wild yeast on the blueberries. Most of info online isn't that helpful; no real recipes, says the fermentation is...

I've been experimenting with a recipe from the 1800's I found on Jack Kellers Website. The original recipe was called May Wine, but to ovoid any confusion with the German beverage of the same name, I've been calling it Fìon-Céiteanach (Scottish for May Wine) For a 1 gallon batched I used...

Yeah, I had the same the same problem with a 1 gal batch of new metheglin/pyment combo recipe I was experimenting with, I had pitched the yeast on the 5th of June, with a OG of 1.11. When I checked on it today, the airlock had completely stopped bubbling, I was pretty sure I didn't have a...

Haven't done that much brewing since my collage days, I just make a couple gallons of country wine a year, but this summer I've decide to be a little more ambitious, decided to invest in some new equipment to be able to have multiple batches going at the same time and to do a larger verity...