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Cheers folks. I just came into possession of a bag filled with Indian ghost peppers (AKA Bhut Jolokia, 1,041,427 SHU), and while most I'll use in chili and some curries, I got the idea to try some out in a relatively sweet mead. These are dried peppers, and I'm curious if anyone has advice on...

So this is my first batch in ages, and I have deemed it tasty: Now this isn't the batch I'd posted about a month ago which boiled over, that's this one: It's still sort of bubbling here and there, not an awful lot, but enough to get me to hang on before trying to bottle! This one...

Mornin' folks. Right now my bottles are sitting in a large plastic tub, soaking away in a sanitizer. I've got 24 old green bottles my grandfather used to use to brew and make root beer with (quite lovely, long slow taper) and 24 "normal" brown beer bottles. While looking through my bottles, I...

Swear to $deity I turn my back for a minute to use the bathroom, and my wort boiled over. Looks like about 1 cup boiled out and a few ounces of my hops off the top. How bad is boiling over? As I recall in the Charlie book he mentions boiling over as being not a good thing. I've scraped my spoon...

Morning folks. My name is Matt, and I've been getting back into the swing of brewing. It's been more than 10 years since I last brewed beer, and it's something I enjoyed greatly and now the bug has bitten again, and my apartment has the space, so why not? I've been making small 1g batches of...