Recent content by fongsong

My winemaker friend mentioned that the light can encourage the growth/developmant of other things (sorry to be so nonspecific, it was a while ago). It won't 'hurt' the fermentation but may lead to off tastes. I don't think that a couple of days will make any difference though

Hi I am quite new to mead making but have read the forums quite a bit. The recipe that you posted was indeed designed for a beginer mazer so they can make something with things they mostly have in the kitchen. It is not supposed to be an award winning mead although many paople have attested to...

Bugeaud I added 1kg at first and then another 0.7kg (1.7kg total) this comes to 3.74lbs (@2.2lbs/kg). I think you may have missed the extra 0.7kg as it was in the text rather than the original list of ingredients It actually tastes like there is too much alcohol :)No idea if it is just because...

Thanks for your replies. At first I was concerned about watering it down but I checked my notes and it was only 180ml in 5l so it won't be too much. I was thinking that previously I had added the coffee during fermentation which would have killed bad things. But, yes, it was added to secondary...

I have made a coffee mead https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/macachinilla-macadamia-mochachino-vanilla-215995/ But it has no where near the coffee flavour that I want. I'd like to add some more, I can think of two alternatives 1. Add some ground coffee 2. Cold brew some coffee and add it...

I'm thinking of adding some ground coffee to it to increase the flavour. Maybe because I cold brewed the coffee that I put it before that it doesn't taste very strong. I may add a little more honey in the hope that it covers some of the harsh alcohol. Anyone put ground coffee into secondary...

6/3/2011 (59days) (late entry) 1 vanilla bean added (split and scraped) 6/12/2011 (11 months) It has been sitting under my bed for the past year and I thought I'd give it a try. I am a bit disapointed about how strong the coffee taste is. If I did it again I would use twice as much coffee...

25/2/11 (51 days) Cold brewed 10 oz of Kona Macadamia chocolate coffee in 650ml water for 13 hrs, drainind it, pushed the grinds against the sieve and got 180ml of concentrate, added to the mead. Added 100g of 'Winter honey'. I found a shop that has different varieties that I could taste. This...

22/2/11 Racked to secondary with 3/4 cambden tab and 3g of sorb My hydrometer broke and I havn't got a new one so I left it ages (also being a bit lazy) I have 650ml left in the 5l bottle. I'll cold brew the coffee and add it in the next few days

8/1/2011 (day 3) Added 0.5g of energiser, which makes it a total of 5g in approx 4.5l. I'll probably leave it there unless you guys have a recommendation to add more. Having put just under half of the honey in the last 2 days I presume I'm still a way off the 1/3 mark. Not taken a hydro reading...

7/1/2011 (12 hours later) I've added the rest of the honey (same method as before) and 0.5g of energiser, shook it up. I did it now because I have work tomorrow and it wouldn't get done until tomorrow night, I'll take the hydro reading then. My first bag of c02 has deflated :(

7/1/2011 Added about half of the remaining honey. I boiled a pan of water to clean the pan, emptied the water out and poured in a very small amout of bottled water, added the honey and warmed gently until it had dissolved and then pitched it. It frothed up quite a bit for a few seconds and then...

This is my first post I have only a couple of brew under my belt. Thought I'd give a brief brewlog of my next mead adventure as I've been reading others and found them useful. Although only a noob, i have been reading the forums a lot and asking endless questions to a friend of mine who is a...