Recent content by jdoyle83

I checked the mead today, one month after I made it: 0.995 13.8% by volume, and you can tell. Can everybody say "lighter fluid"? god damn.

I would have to guess that few people actually know what nun-grundle tastes like. Kudos to you, sir. I'm not sure that an anatomically authentic nun is capable of having a grundle, though. MONK-grundle, perhaps, could be a Belgian ale?

:off: Yeah, that definitely brought up a few questions...:D

...and another 3 makes: 5810

Swift and efficient. Thanks!

I added some fermax about a week ago. Just a warning to fellow mead noobs: do this in a bathtub or something. baking soda and vinegar, anybody? edit: What I mean to say here is that, because I didn't look into it too much, I added the fermax DRY [didn't mix it w/ boiled H2O] and it began to...

Three weeks ago (4/4/08) I made some cider (or is it apfelwein?) and either didn't take or didn't record an OG reading for some reason. It was a three gallon batch: 2 gal. of Mott's and 1 gal store brand juice, 1.5 pounds of table sugar (had no dextrose), and red star Montrachet. Today I...

your beer is fuggled! :cross:

just finished up bottling, I used 2/3 cup dark brown sugar and am very excited to see how it turns out. the hydro sample tasted AMAZING. :ban: I'll let you know how the carb worked out in a few weeks! :mug:

Awesome. thank you.

...and for those of us without scales, about how much did you use? 3/4 cup okay for a 5 gallon batch? more? less? sorry to be so damn helpless, but everything I found on the subject was in terms of weight, which only confused me. Thanks for the help, you people amaze me.:mug:

I did a search for this, but didn't come up with a whole lot. I am bottling a dark/red/some-kind-of ale(?) today [7 lbs extract, crystal 60 & roasted barley steeped, Millenium & EKG hops] and just realized I don't have any priming sugar! :mad: Has anybody primed with brown sugar before...

How did that LEAD taste?:(

I am not a huge fan of having "sam adams" in raised letters on all of my bottles of homebrew, why not go for a plain, unmarked bottle? Sierra nevada are good, i bellieve harpoon dominates my bottle collection, though. some magic hat, some long trail, maybe some ipswich... definitely not sam...

So I've been poking around the mead forum for a week or so and I figured I'd give it a try. I just finished making my first ever batch of mead, and I kept it simple: I added 3 pounds of BJ's brand clover honey to about 1/3 gallon water and shook the hell out of it, then added more water to...