Recent content by FuggleHops

It's done fermenting, and I don't see the point in racking it to a carboy again when I could just put it in a keg and not have to worry about oxygen exposure.

I've got a couple of batches of mead that I am getting ready to keg, and I'd like to know if it would be a good idea to cut half an inch or so off of the bottom of the dip tube. One of the batches has only been racked once before, so I'm certain there will be some additional lees falling out of...

This started out as a cyser with 12lb honey and 4gal apple juice, and fermented for 13 days in primary before I racked it to secondary along with 7.25lb of canned cherries. It has been in secondary for 6 days now, and I haven't been paying attention to it since racking, but now I realized that...

Well I finally put it all together today. I ended up using the entire 12lb jar of honey with 4 gallons of apple juice and 71B yeast. OG was 1.134, a bit higher than I expected. I think this is gonna end up sweeter than I had planned... Anyways, I'm in no rush to bottle it. I'll probably just...

So after doing a fair amount of research, I'm finally getting ready to brew up my first batch of mead. I'm planning on doing a cherry cyser, and the recipe that I came up with will probably go like this: 4.33 gallons apple juice 8lbs raw, cold packed raspberry honey 7.25lbs canned tart...

If I wanted to make a melomel with berries (I'm currently thinking about raspberries, but this question would also apply to any other kind of berry), would the final product differ significantly with each of the following methods? 1. Putting the berries in whole. 2. Replacing some of the...