I made this and added pomegranate and it was great. Sorry did not let it age much, my friends came over and it got drank up at 7 weeks. Now I am making another batch and poured in frozen raspberries. Passes the smell test so far....
Nice jugs! Where does one find jugs like that? I looked all over for some gallon glass jugs but I had to buy them empty.
If fermentation starts (and I think it will) just let the yeast do their thing.
Still no sign of fermentation after 24 hours sitting in a 70 degree room.
I made a gallon of this just over 2 months ago. I want to bottle, but it looks like it still has some CO2 bubbles going on... Should it be totally free of visible bubbles before bottling?
If you see bubbles its likely not clear (ie can you read a newspaper through it?)
If its not clear you should leave it a while (couple weeks).
found this thread about a month ago and made this my first ever attempt at brewing anything ever.
I have two 1 gallon batches in the closet going to town.
the first I followed the recipe exactly
the second I:
replaced the raisins with cranberries. They have tannins too, I looked it up.
zested and peeled the oranges
used D47 instead of bread yeast
OK, I did this recipe back in late Nov. (I actually forgot about it!), and I did a taste test. I is like pure ROCKET fuel!! I followed the recipe to a "T", (I may have had a little more honey, maybe a 1/2 pound at most)
Any idea what might have gone wrong? A person in my homebrew club said give it a year at least for mead...
Apparently I should not be making Mead. I failed to calculate the amount of honey going into the water and also did not think to use less than 1 gallon of water. 4lbs of honey in 1 gallon of water does not equal 1 gallon in my Gallon jug. :smack:
I did take an OG reading though! About 1.110 (+/-2)
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