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I found once I'd quit for about a year, it started getting difficult again. The novelty had worn off a bit, and you know, smoking feels great sometimes. Hang in there though. It's really excellent you've decided to quit, once you find you can run about like you could five/ten years ago, there's...

So, yeast likes oxygen, but aerating your brew risks introducing infections. I was wondering, would an aquarium style air pump with a good bacterial filter make for nice mead, a faster fermentation, or just a wrong tasting drink? If I'm being a berk feel free to say so...

Thanks people. I'm a big fan of the honey-chilli combo, pops up sometimes in Japanese food with delicious results. I think this could be an awesome drink served warm, I'll let you know if the results are tasty. Eventually I'd like to get a chilli-chocolate mead down, an old school aztac...

I'm well up for trying my hand at a really hot chilli mead. I hear that the heat diminishes with age so I want the initial mix to be pretty potent, but I don't want to kill of my yeast with some unfermented home made Mace. Can anyone recommend a reliable recipe or a particularly hardy yeast?

Maybe a skin cream could be doable? I work on a burns ward, we get through loads of oat based creams and gels. Something called oat beta-glucan is apparently awesome for the skin. Wikipedia recons beta-glucans are in some yeasts too. Seems like we should be rolling around in whatever we dont...

If life gives you lemons (or grape concentrate, or ketchup), and a custodial sentence, find some mouldy bread. Mmm, prison wine.

Cheers! Good to be here. :)

Cheers! I love those old flight safety cards, Fight Club was spot on with how awesome they are.

Yeah, hi! I've just started my first brew (a slightly optimistic cyser), and signing up somewhere for ideas and advice seems like a plan, so here I am. By the way, now I'm getting into it, this is all really compelling. That I've got six gallons of living, respiring fluid in my airing...

Got to do something whilst waiting for the brew to happen. Anyway, this is the label I'm working on for metheglin/cyser everyone I know's getting for Christmas. I thought some faux-Victorian thing would be a little too obvious. What do you guys think?